Cold

Your bare shoulders are shivering,
covered in goosebumps.
Please put on a sweater.

In the news

A short follow-up to Waves Goodbye

at the base of the
mountain of words
lies a death gone unnoticed

Waves goodbye

At the bottom of page B7

of the newspaper that day

were three short sentences

that detailed the death

of an underwater diver

whose body floated to 

the surface during a 

subsurface photograph

session in the caves 

below the waves of

South Florida. 

She clipped them carefully

and pasted them into 

the family Bible, so his

children might know that

he died doing something 

he loved and that somebody

had actually taken notice.

ISIS

He happily bows
adoring
my goddess temple

I made the Top 50!

Pretty excited about the fact that End of the Line made the Top 50 poems in the April PAD Challenge on Poetic Asides. Almost makes me feel like a real poet. ;)

So proud.

Love?

You fill up my senses

like the smell
of a wet, dirty dog

*I really need to get off this Lune kick!!

After the Rain

The smell of wet pavement
is better than
the lingering scent you left

Melted

He called her an ice queen.
Said she didn't
know how to open up.

He called her a frigid bitch.
Said her heart
wasn't warm enough to love.


But the melt of hot
tears revealed the
life beneath that Arctic exterior.

Life under melting Arctic ice

Life under melting Arctic ice

Walter pretended not to care
When his friends began dying
When his two sons began visiting less
And forgot that he was once their only family

Walter pretended not to see
how his hands began wavering
how his footsteps were a little shakier
And that his wife was no longer around to catch him

Walter pretended not to know
That what he began would soon be finished
And that the slow drip drip drip into the toilet
Was the Glacial meltwater of his life slipping away

THE EX-FACTOR (or The Many Voices of Lauryn Hill)

For this week's Poetic Asides prompt to use a headline.

THE EX-FACTOR (or The Many Voices of Lauryn Hill)

That thing she did
before five kids came along
began killing her softly

When it hurt so bad
she saw she had nowhere
left to turn

And her Miseducation
inspired a vacation from
superstardom