ADRIFT (poem)
Tossed, blown off course by the storm, My skin pink from previous sunlight, I stand on the deck and imagine she is there waiting for me to reach shore If I can just glimpse her in the distance like a … Continue reading →
Category Archives: poetry
Reproach Beyond a Dog (poem)
(I wrote this poem years ago, but now understand even more why this issue is such a big deal for me. As an HSP, certain stimuli is maddening to me, and the barking of a dog is probably the number … Continue reading →
Learning to Fly
I made this place my mistress, for lack of the proper kind I excavated acres for the love I hoped to find But all I found were bones, beneath the unseen sky The love I need’s not on the ground, … Continue reading →
Plugging In (poem)
I hear your voice breathless and urgent making your request. I feel my heart, thumping, jumping dancing in my chest. I cup your face, pressing into you– slow, slow– You pull me in, gasping, your lips releasing endearments into my … Continue reading →
To Sleep, Perchance To Dream (poem)
What magic what survived the holocaust of the bitter edged sword, its flailing sparks upon the stone of US, is drawing a last breath. Seeking peace, I closed my drying eyes, and fell into the netherworld of unreal things, wished … Continue reading →
Acquittal
from Trustplaces: Erotica for Women Who Love Women I could not post stories from this collection, as they would be much too EROTIC for a blog. You’ll have to buy the book. ;^) Sobbing, you relinquish the bricks … Continue reading →
Crush (poem)
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll get through it~ this solitude foisted upon me by fate. I wonder why she doesn’t call me? Must I do everything? and nothing Even when everything feels like nothing, and nothing, everything?
Continue reading →Already (poem)
I already love her mind. I already love her words. I already love the parts of herself she reveals to me in herds of raw, broken, struggling, yet completely filled vessels of hope and understanding. I’m not demanding totally sodden … Continue reading →
Choice Starvation (poem)
A glimpse of perfection from stony blindness. Trembling through the tenuous tension of good and evil. Respect me, I am a person, my opinion matters. External motivations are inherently worthless Down the hatch. But it’s only cappuccino Forcing the gates … Continue reading →
Rapture (poem)
Rapture Silver shadows leap like gazelles,lightning bends the dark,the candle bends our will.With every breath betweenI dream of the dopaminerushyour lips quiveryour hips riseand we move beyondvibrant eons of holy light.
Continue reading →Fat Crowds (poem)
I sit at the bar, cigarette in hand, And worlds beyond: Sultry skies mixed with sea hues of grey and blue My brain sleeps, yet in that moment I fuck desire. Heed the writing on the walls. As fat crowds … Continue reading →
Back to Sweetness (poem)
Just you, unresponsive bickering, in your T-shirt and panties. Can you be satisfied? Gliding in, I shove you hard onto the bed. The sky cracks as if slashed by a knife. Let it feast on the air while i feast … Continue reading →