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The Plunge

~posted as free flow poetry on my tumblr blog~ Some days, 
She climbed the ladder and
 Padded to the end of the 
Diving board, 
Bounced to her toes 
And a did a swan dive 
Into 
The Melancholy Ocean....

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Once more, my love

We must come to the conclusion, my dear, that the bustle and joy are no longer here Days have passed and nights so long, comfort is nil, affection all wrong Every word uttered ends only in spite there...

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Slumbering Heart

I have fallen off the edge of the world and seen what lays beneath, I have flown over the desolate void and thrown flowers in supplication to that which sleeps beneath Drawn forth by whispering vines...

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Courage

With my halcyon days so far behind me that they no longer even cast a shadow, as what I know to be my last years begin to climb out of the depths, wrapping their ropes around my ankles to slow my...

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What’s Left

I want to rage but you want to cry, and so I whimper. I want to sing but you want to sleep, and so I whisper. You win by default, never warning me your compromises are comprised of a hundred tiny...

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blurred boundaries

slip-slide into dreams roughshod into the light, popping stitches and bursting seams. one doesn’t end, one doesn’t begin, Ouroboros waking, rising, consuming, without to within. edges blending into...

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Rubble

there are things worth saving, if you scrabble through the rubble. Stones, strong stones, upon which to rebuild the foundation, cracked stones, for fissures make interesting ornamentation, and add...

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Shine a light

Shine a light, a penlight, a flashlight, a torch, over all your jaggedy edges and ugly corners, Let them have their moment in the sun. Illuminate, illumine, give weight to the scrawny and...

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I am Perfect(ly Imperfect)

I am perfect(ly imperfect) My kitchen floor, you could eat off it (if you’re current on your tetanus) The dinners I deliver, delightful (if you consider mayo and cardiac arrest a side dish) My...

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Today is a Tuesday

Today is a Tuesday, Not just ‘TUESDAY’, which implies it’s the Tuesday, and it’s not, it’s just a Tuesday (I know that Wednesday is Odin’s day, and that Thursday belongs to Thor, and it seems that...

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