Slipping Down the Glass Mountain
I embarkon a vision questto find my identitybut forget to bringmy wallet We reach the top of Feather Falls at about 9 a.m. KC explains that it’s one of the…
Help
I’m in the dark, and I can’t sleep. Mom and Dad just broke up. My pillow’s all wet. The wind's blowing the curtains and they look like ghosts. All I…
On the Edge
I study the anvil cloud through the swish of my wipers. Dark sheets of rain veer from cloud to ground as lightning zigzags through the electrically-charged air. Off to the…
“…therefore I am.”
I’m a seashell, washed up on a distant shore.I’m a pony standing beside the road.I’m lighting striking a church-bell tower.I’m a ladder leaning up against the wall.I’m the last tree…
Firsthand
each budopens to its first day,a leafdancing with the sunlike a lover A soft spring sky hovers over the valley. The rain has come and gone. Without a care in…
Breakthrough
I see a light through the keyhole while fumbling with the keys to my imagination. The faint sliver penetrates the darkness just enough that I can tell it’s there. I…
Crossing Paths
no moon . . .I take a breathof silence I’m in the mountains of West Virginia dead-set to cross them before daybreak. Problem is, I need a ride and they…
marksmanship
a beegathering pollenflower to flowertouches the trigger hairsof a venus flytrap in the din of voices across the crowded room—in the sum of my consciousness—two smiles engage for the briefest…
Time Travel
hourglass sandslips through your fingersone grain at a timedawn breaks the stillnessand thunders through my brain I stand on the threshold of tomorrow, examining the cracks in my psyche. Born…
Belligerent
i conjure this necessity, razor-sharp, surging blood, with unmortgaged reason, no compromised beliefs or treaties of the heart, just commitment brewed to the maximum proof. to the icons of corruption—of…
