You Blow You’re like the sighing tree Spiritually significant Looming large You’re like the swelling river Unexpectedly invasive Swiftly moving, silently dangerous You’re like the wind You blow January, 2009  

Bones Doors are closed Written pages scatter And scurry to windows In hope to fade and fossilize To absolve the fool who wrote them Words were always friends Now sun and time Become surprising allies But when pages were written Night was the greatest advocate Disguising stupidity in shadow January, 2009  

“White Cat” The white cat of winter stalked the ground Covering fields with footprints of snow The air became crystalline Sharp to the lungs Breathing life into every dream Sound leaped into being As northern wings danced Till branches were heavy laden Timid water tumbled as shining coins Through the rocky stream Snow-silvered trees swayed And glinted like a warrior’s blade A deep velvet sky became refuge for the moon As snowdrifts reflected its beauty Color burst to ...

Bound By The women walked through fields Barefoot, gossamer rags swaying Bound by chains The women walked through cities In wings of couture Fluttering, clicking Bound by beautiful The women walked through indigo Gently nudging stars from their path Comfortable in the radiant skin They were meant to live in January 2009    

Tin Roofs Are Deadly She usually loved the rain But tonight it sounded Like premeditated murder If he'd just reach out to her Even from another hemisphere She'd hold his hand But the quiet downpour of no one Continued to drown her And she always believed It would be The tears That took her under January, 2009  

I Was Promised--I’ll Find You Again Someday Lying there wrapped in the cocoon of creation I dared look over at the luminous white and ivory bundle beside me A luminosity from within her took hold of me And I felt myself drawn to her Lying there in the emerald, flowered field Ethereal grace seemed to emanate from her as each moment passed I heard gentle footsteps approaching through the warm layers that engulfed me Closer, and I could see The perfectly formed, translucent feet ...

Glimmering Lie I can’t remember me A ghost no one can see Then you had all the answers But your path to paradise Has no direction My eyes are pierced My heart is blind-- You are no beacon To peace of mind You defeated me I won’t agree With your black and white insanity …bleeding impossibility You’re the black In a starry sky Forget the glimmering lie This path won’t lead me home Hope, you led me on January 2009  

Botched Getaway You made me look when I let go Before I leaped to nothing below In silence the end came around I stopped six inches from the ground Choked on the noose Of your perception You want a golden promise No exception Idealistic ground beneath your feet Love and legalistic never meet I hold you too dear to darken your flame When words and hands should fall like rain… The crash and burn were beautiful Destruction lit the night Before the vultures gather Cut me loose, I’l...

When You’re One Person I need to know what you think At night When your life is still Maybe your hands have moved Upon a lover’s body But who’s under your skin When you’re one person again? Do scenes drift through your mind Or is it sound? The truth I gave you has to be heavy Maybe my words make you hate me Or the way I made you feel Still makes you shake… I know the nothings you spoke Removed some obstacles And yes, I’ve felt like a fool But being a fool ...

I'll Make Resolutions This New Year's Eve, I'm warm in a familiar room with people I love. We are together. They don't know that a piece of me is missing, though it seems I should look like an amputee. Thank God they don't have x-ray vision. Is it my heart that's missing--my mind, my soul? Confetti will collect in that void when the clock creeps forward. In the rowdy cheers, the "Happy New Years" will echo in the cavern I disguise-- will rattle around this emptiness that s...