Total Love
Tired Withering Dark olive skin resting on the soft embrace of light blue shirt, like weary Atlas leaning against hospitable skies momentarily. And then those chestnut punctuations…
To Die at Appomattox
On the removal of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery The compromise has been forsaken. She was lifted from the pedestal As an airbus smeared…
(flori)cartograph
Would that I but had a garden Wherein which I could tend the soil, And stand watch like patient warden Over the seedlings as they grow. What…
Looking at the Leaves
I see the falling leaves – how on the air Each slips and skids this way and that In haphazard descent - dead things, Being discarded: the…
Bleeding Woman
Shame trickling down from between my legs, Walking impurity stirring disgust, Doctors have just left me to my last dregs, My money spent with almost all my…
The Absolution of Bedivere
Sit now, Thy head bowed, And, awaiting blessed benediction, pray Sweet absolve of Arthur’s stay, His bloodied head crowned. Sit, good Bedivere, as Peter thrice Denied his…
Communion of Roosters
Sat in the hen-house, The rooster clucks, Prior to his fulfillment of Prime “Have you ever thought about “cock-a-doodle-doo?” Saith one rooster ponderously. “How my call beckons…
Deliverance
Splinters of broken thought piercing my skin, Demons dancing in my head, calling names, Sharp-toothed parasites wearing me thin, Gashing into my flesh with stone that maims…
Wild Geese Calling
In the rhythm of the current, cool against my feet descending into deeper pools, the calls of wild geese snatch up my attention. My vision is arrested…
Martha and Mary
She just sat there listening, that was all He wanted, not heavy meals, or deep sighs Of self-martyrdom, just to hear his call Was all he asked…
Faerie Rings
I. Child Spring An impish lad. At first, he’s shy. Leaves little flowers on the lawn for bees to find and make the honey rise with the…