La Croix Rouge

She’ll never realize her importance to me I’ll never have the courage to right the wrongs A life will be wasted and a heart will live in delusion The tired shadows are restrained upright Posed into semi-factual memory positions The heart weeps, uncomforted by the display The wasted life walks...

Curiosity

It must have been twenty years ago The chariots of Bacchus roared through the streets I had seen the horses rise above the revelers Half submerged like some rotting pieces of wood She slept the living death beneath her sheets I sat beside the window warm and curious The parades and festival swirling in the...

Sea Salt

Far away at the bottom of the sea Tiny little bubbles slipping away We made our home in the old sea torn barrel While the fish and the white time passed us by From shell to shell we hopped Outgrowing, sleeping around Then we found that the old sea torn barrel Was still anchored into the corral floor We...

The Veil

All of the children had arrived the previous morning Each on time according to their individual watches For once, this final time, everything left behind She is sitting by the window now watching the sun slide down It was just last week that I had driven to work as usual Thankfully, none of that matters now...

The Cassandra

It’s time for us to walk among the frost January has come upon us again The frozen air will make me peacefully stoic And you will ask me if everything is alright In town the chimneys will be working Lazy clouds slowly climbing brick conversing Until their destination is reached And the sky’s icy...