Category: Poetry
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Read more: Leaf Cycle
I wrote this in 2020 for the dVerse Poet’s Pub. Today it is being repurposed for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. Vibrant autumn leaves decorating the lawn warm-spicing the air. 2. Wintertime’s leaves scrape and scratch along the sidewalk crunch beneath my…
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Read more: 2nd Grade & Why I’m Not Catholic
The piece below recounts the actual events of a day at St. James Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. 1966, or so. I flunked a phonics test and Sister Eleanor is scowling like Satan: goose-stepping back and forth, spitting “God…
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Read more: What Nobody Knew
From that first night I wanted to keep you. Then, in the dirty light of day it became clear: you already had a home. What nobody knew (not even you!) is that I kept you anyway safely in the tenderest…
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Read more: Devastation
It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! Four years ago, it was Haibun Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. That time, our mission was to take a walk down Memory Lane: “…Force yourself into memories not in photographs; not already written down…
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Read more: It’s the Sunshine
It’s the sunshine that makes me sad. So bright a relentless interrogator exposing my secrets my pain leaving me nowhere to hide my Self. But the rain! The rain envelopes me in her fresh silvery droplets. Asking no questions She…
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Read more: Shapeshifter
So sweetly, your gentle love wound its way around my heart like delicate passionflower tendrils. O, but soon it transformed into a strangling kudzu vine: clinging, binding, suffocating, and finally withering my almost-beating heart — leaving a silent screaming wound.…
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Read more: Some Hearts: A Villanelle
Some hearts were meant for breaking Unluckily born in vain Thornbird’s song in the making. Some hearts were meant for taking Not caring if they cause pain Some hearts were meant for breaking. Some hearts go through life faking It’s…
