#FFF

  • Leaf Cycle

    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 boots. 3. Tiny, hopeful buds sprouting from dewy branches robin spies a worm

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  • After You

    After You

    This was originally written for the D’verse poets pub vin 2014. It is now repurposed for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. After you, I never felt clean. No matter how many showers or how hard I scrubbed there always seemed to be a smudge of filth, a foul blemish permeating my heart my soul— my very being—

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  • Monte

    Monte

    This piece was written in May of 2019 for no particular reason, and now it is being repurposed for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. To Monte, it seemed as if they’d been walking for days. He wished they could stop for a snack & a drink of water, but apparently The Guy was on some sort of mission.

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  • Sky Blue!

    Sky Blue!

    I wrote this one on May 16, 2017. Here it is again for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. My spirit danced in the love of your laughing blue eyes as we skipped hand in hand down our sidewalk. Through the yellow rays of our neighborhood’s sunlight, we passed the daffodils in bloom and yesterdays’ fuzzy-smudged hopscotch game.

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  • Ol’ Dolly

    Ol’ Dolly

    This haiku was originally written for Haiku Horizons in 2018. Now it’s being recycled for Fandango’s Flashback Friday.   A strange, old dolly made of clay, sticks, moss, and straw. Hat pins make her go              

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