The bars around her brain connect with the fencing around her heart he doesn’t perceive them, can’t feel them doesn’t know how to cautiously break through them they stand side by side without touching observe a baby deer as it munches on straw-like weeds its eyes dart...
September 2022 Writing
Aria & the rain is unbreakable
the rain is unbreakable I’m negotiating with my skin breath exoskeleton again while unbreakable rain stitches each slit in the summer sky You said I was unknowable said I wouldn’t recognize a robust love if it landed on my lips lids lenses But sometimes there’s...
Spores
Spores [I've been working on this for a while. Took another stab at it, this time in 2nd person, during Sarah Freligh's amazing September BG weekend workshop. Thanks for reading.] Holding your new baby, you hurry into the Welsh night, away from the...
Not for the stones or the mountains
Not for the stones or the mountains––they will stay, they will change as the earth moves––but for the living earth as I knew it once, I mourn. As if, as if I alone, I Cassandra, visions draw near–– bring fear, despair, for all that is. At dusk another vision appears––...
Delusions of Grandeur
They are the Ash People. That’s what I call my coworkers. We sit side by side in the basement of the building, twelve of us, in shoulder-high cubicles the size of barnyard stalls for cattle. The others have decorated their workspaces with comic strips, family photos,...
The Premature Howl of a Cat
The Premature Howl of a Cat by Kristen Henderson A gush of warm liquid puddles between my legs then another push the red button with the white outline of a nurse “let’s see her, honey…yep, you broke your water” it was too early, but the baby had...
How to measure time when you’re out of your mind
Dowd is off the edge. Often he wishes for an out. - This is my ‘depressed’ stance. Says Charlie Brown. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.* - That 1960 cartoon is published the year before hell descended on Dowd. Dowd...
When Pandemonium Hits, Make Lemonade
-I miss you already. -Enjoy Arizona. -I will if this elevator ever gets here. -Did you call a taxi? -I´ll wave one down. -It´s rush hour. -Enjoy your time to yourself. The sun makes the balcony rail untouchable. There are no instructions to surviving this heat...
Don’t wait till the Midnight Hour
The bars around her brain connect with the fencing around her heart he doesn’t perceive them, can’t feel them doesn’t know how to cautiously break through them they stand side by side without touching observe a baby deer as it munches on straw-like weeds its eyes dart...
Aria & the rain is unbreakable
the rain is unbreakable I’m negotiating with my skin breath exoskeleton again while unbreakable rain stitches each slit in the summer sky You said I was unknowable said I wouldn’t recognize a robust love if it landed on my lips lids lenses But sometimes there’s...
Spores
Spores [I've been working on this for a while. Took another stab at it, this time in 2nd person, during Sarah Freligh's amazing September BG weekend workshop. Thanks for reading.] Holding your new baby, you hurry into the Welsh night, away from the...
Not for the stones or the mountains
Not for the stones or the mountains––they will stay, they will change as the earth moves––but for the living earth as I knew it once, I mourn. As if, as if I alone, I Cassandra, visions draw near–– bring fear, despair, for all that is. At dusk another vision appears––...
Delusions of Grandeur
They are the Ash People. That’s what I call my coworkers. We sit side by side in the basement of the building, twelve of us, in shoulder-high cubicles the size of barnyard stalls for cattle. The others have decorated their workspaces with comic strips, family photos,...
The Premature Howl of a Cat
The Premature Howl of a Cat by Kristen Henderson A gush of warm liquid puddles between my legs then another push the red button with the white outline of a nurse “let’s see her, honey…yep, you broke your water” it was too early, but the baby had...
How to measure time when you’re out of your mind
Dowd is off the edge. Often he wishes for an out. - This is my ‘depressed’ stance. Says Charlie Brown. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.* - That 1960 cartoon is published the year before hell descended on Dowd. Dowd...
When Pandemonium Hits, Make Lemonade
-I miss you already. -Enjoy Arizona. -I will if this elevator ever gets here. -Did you call a taxi? -I´ll wave one down. -It´s rush hour. -Enjoy your time to yourself. The sun makes the balcony rail untouchable. There are no instructions to surviving this heat...