Dry earth splits with repulsion There is a paradox in the crying shame that a dehydrated cell forgets how to soak It’s a crying shame...

At ten, they released me, these swordsmen, these magicians, pulling thread after thread of meaning out of their fine silk, tweed, and...

We could have stopped it, if the populations of all countries had taken the vaccines just as soon as they were available. We knew better....

If I was as black as Coal, With the Lorde’s confidence within me Would I be a happy soul? Could I inherit her? If I was Virginia white,...

Silence comes, After the storm, Creeping – Looks around, Assessing damage, What can be done? To take it back, The steel tipped fears, Of...

I can be patient but when my spirit someday seeps from out my corpse I know that it will slither toward suburbia and slip into the...

It was such a long time since the last rain that when it started the other night I thought it was a truck rumbling down the street, and...

And I am so sick Of being looked at like a Museum exhibit. A necklace you got in the gift shop, Only it cost my soul—not yours. Probably...

Rushing towards extinction on a Ferris wheel of doubt The heavy night air like an elephant thickens my heart with lust You look in the...

I was telling Cara, my boss, about a recurring work nightmare. ‘People kept coming in, and they were yelling at me, but I didn’t know...

I washed my bed sheets today. They were more or less clean, but my blanket was sullied from love-making the night before. Or maybe it was...

PANDEMICAL PERSPECTIVE The pandemic has changed life for so many people in so little time. New relationships have been forged out of...