Showing posts from September, 2018

Epiphany

Epiphany   You were both unwilling witnesses to my disease. Innocents shattered in seconds, each crumple…

Stranger in a Strange Town

Stranger in a Strange Town Midnight down by the railroad tracks, she stood weeping, windswept hair, dancin…

Incendiary

Incendiary   Barbie dolls and G.I. Joe’s, Matchbox cars, colorful Legos, all lost to a house going up i…

Quaking

Quaking     While the earth shook,  they cringed amid the tremors. Those unnatural shudderings, grow…

Mantis Religiosa

Mantis Religiosa …Creation’s final law—/…Nature, red in tooth and claw, Alfred Lord Tennyson     Chi…

Vale Verba

Vale Verba     Virginia Woolf’s Pelikan fills with purple ink, hesitates, then writes the end o…

In Winter

In Winter   All of your stories so long I will listen And your sobs you kept in you will find in …

Inside

Inside     Vendors chant one shekel!  echad! while I devour peppers with my eyes, all fresh greens a…

Helixes

Helixes we have a war freezing in these silences the fire under the ice has yet to surface words float from …

Side of Life and Death

Side of Life and Death     People on the right, Jews on the left. Her sister was caught into the wagon…

Bits of Bark, Eyes of Frogs

Bits of Bark, Eyes of Frogs      Neighborhood witches burn leaves, squint into flames  blazing wild, dete…

Shadows Fall

Shadows Fall   from her eyelids, she puckers clumsily striations of a stone. The black spot in her white …

The Pallbearer

The Pallbearer                Carl stood solemnly facing the casket as it was pulled from the back of the hears…

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