Temporal Transfix Pt. 4

*A work of ten parts originally 6.       I wave a hand at my reflection, and, after a tic, she waves back. 7. You know she’ll leave eventually, or you’ll leave, if you’re fast enough. The coming departure stretching roots in your living, stuffing its flowers under the couch in coat pockets hanging …

Dear Lady, I Feel

*mention of stillbirth, so caution Lady Liberty, I feel for you. Your honor has been questioned, your mission gaslighted, and your children no longer know your face. I feel for you, in that woman way, in that way Cassandra saw the fall of Troy Only for a man god to take her credibility. Corporate gods …

Cross to Bear

Today I wished for myself to be like Christ, and just like that martyr I was betrayed. There has never been a darker world where Mary’s embrace stung her son, where his brother’s mouth bruised his lips, and the chipped cross tree was a safe haven. Such love turns stranger hurls indifference at me at …

Garden Dreams

I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) toward the end of my first year in college, and it was a nightmare. Between various testing and doctors, waiting for appointments, and college work, there were moments where my body would literally turn on itself. Through it all, my mother was there, even at 6 a.m. on a Saturday. Don’t know where I’d be without her.

Mermaid Song

WATER- Salty seafoam cloud shapes As the green leaves sashay below Blue depths, the rush of cold Clogging sound beyond notes Smaller than melody floating Up to earn the craving of landed ears CRAVING- Legs, bumpy, knotted stilts Landed ears use to stand, Flap in water,  fold underneath bodies And bury under specks of sea …

Country Lullaby

I hunted the dark and stared in its eye smiling as it breathed shallow, panicked breaths. There’s no place for you, here in the pastures, above reflections of the moon burning white in blue waters, No space to trickle among dormant ears, traverse wooded guards, tall sentries stretching branches toward resting comets in the black …