A Blessing
A piano plays in the room next door No sweeter sound for her The voice that joins the melody So confident and sure To hear such talent in this youth Brings a…
One Day at a Time Cont.
She took a deep draw of air, filling her lungs. The smell of honeysuckle and horses permeated her senses. She walked out the gate to pick up the bucket she had…
One Day at a Time
It was late, but the horses needed to be fed. After all, they couldn’t feed themselves. She walked out to the pasture with buckets in hand. The night was cool…
Been A Baby
red peppers, julienne them, then walk webbed, the peddlers are fresh out of thyme n’ evolution, television is pollution but it’s relevant, tell me it isn’t…
Reclusive
As sure as thoughts in curling script spin ‘round A life alone will utter not a sound For solitude presents me little choice What purpose therein lies to have…
Fortune Presents Gifts
My life is a list, over time grown long Not one, but two, neither right nor wrong The first contains all as I wished and willed The same with the other, though…
Submerging In The Street
violet wrists sun burnt piglet rain hit the Ave. slick glazy wavy black shiny Orca back skims the surface, swims, submerges, enormous jaws, forces that could…
Spite
What sparked the hatred then Is not recalled again The flames will upward rise To blacken your surprise An agony to blink It tortures you to think Your choking…
Journal Entry
Your written word holds deep The emotions that make you weep Allegorical or obvious prose Feelings no one else knows An exercise in stress relief Or to…
A Willingness to Listen
A man and a song once met On the keys in the back of a room The song didn’t mind the fluorescent light Or the piano being out of tune The man reached out with…
Thirty-two Years of Miscommunication
In all the ways to take my leave I’ve never left with gasoline Tread under tires as I heave A deathly cough at 9:15 My hands unsteady on the wheel The road…
An Incomplete Journey
Dorothy came to a gradual halt. The footsteps of her new friends had dwindled, so she placed her fingertips to her lips and spun about, waving a hand over her…
gANGSTa Rappin' (freewrite)
a wavier while ago down the road a mile or so drunk and in denial + bile + throw, I stagger style up the walkway, heave ho, cleave those lobster claws, flip…
Vainglory Will Not Go Unpunished
We had been walking for weeks. My brother believed the goddess would give us safe passage wherever he led. We wound up the mountains, moving far north of our…
The Mark
The little black spot appeared on her ankle and at first she thought it was just a mole. She dressed and rushed off to school. Her friends giggled and gathered…
Nothing is Greater Than One
“There’s nothing under your bed,” the father yelled, exasperated at his cowering son who wanted a light on and a glass of water and his pillow fluffed and to…
He Listens, He Remembers
He closed his eyes. His uncle’s camper had that old wet and musty smell. The scent was stronger in his mind then it had been thirty years ago. Sleeping in the…
You Know I Write Stories, Right?
There are few people who know me. I mean, really know me. Talking to me isn’t enough. That takes too much time. Conversations go off on tangents and you can…
Bus Stop
“Listen, the city bus is no place for a 9 year old kid, so go home before Momma licks you!” Paulie’s eyes begged me not to go. The tears shone in the corners…
Wendy Thomas-Silver
She thought of herself as the simple girl next door who happened to have inherited her Father’s thriving fast-food stand and her Mother’s red hair. She was…