In the summer of 2000, after we were evicted Mom left us alone to Sleep in her boyfriend’s basement. Used to absence, we played catch in...

Salt and steel survive in icy blue. Red fingers chapped and cracked by cold parched by endless heat drip with a promise. One that bleeds...

My heart strong Beats with life Each day fades With a dying sunset Burning away The waning glow Stops me in my place I wonder why When my...

He seems nice, The man performing cunnilingus On the beautiful, supine woman Who throws her head back because she must And closes her...

I will not kiss your commie flag a sickly sickle and rusted hammer stuck in the mud hollow scythe dulled with Ukie blood when the steppes...

the families on tv screens will have you all believe like some gimmicky advertisement from the sixties that all mothers want their...

in the photos bundled in the back of the drawer. My mother's heart shaped face with wideset eyes leaps out at me in her group of...

How to explain what I saw in you? My ego so tenuous in those lost, middle years, Everything sugarcoated, just to survive. You lived in a...

The thrift shop is packed with treasures and I spy the Easter lilies… flat in a basket on the glass top of a lighted cabinet. They’ve...

She craved connection. To be in control and free of pain, God, she craved to belong. She prayed for release and summoned strength from...

In grade school we'd stare at the clock, the minute hand marching relentlessly, indifferent to our questions: How could a minute last so...

Pear drops of happiness hang: are sugared lanterns of night dripping nectar sweetness - a honeybee’s glowing warmth awaits each...