Poetry

THE CLEANER WHO HATES MEN

When she spreads butter across toast she’ll find herself thinking of jumping out of a window paranoid thoughts fears certain foods her Nan’s boyfriend…

After Seeing You in Sullivan’s

How did you answer, when your friends asked, Who was she?                         "Someone who meant a lot to me once. But that was a long…

the yesterdays before tomorrow

.shelter.

we walk your district quietly. wait in the shelter. I will quite like a wild rumpus here some time.

He’s probably sleeping now

Moon sunken and cloth His head resting on the crested pillow, a cacophony of arms Belly, soft and strumming It's dal for me tonight,…

The Spirit of Christmas

It's all too much, the floor strewn with gifts we couldn't possibly deserve. But our son is happy, going from toy to toy, and…

of Moments that loiter

Receipt

A dried booger fell from my left nostril as I asked the cashier for 2 lottery tickets I saw it she saw it I…

When the storms arrive

and they often do here over the mountain's edge like some dark sky bull the best thing to do is strip off all your…

how it used to be

green brave naïve book-smart rose-colored beautiful innocent everyone’s friend jumping in the puddles sloshing through the rain rolling in the grass climbing down the…

Born

Prompt: 5 minutes to write about something being born. Five minutes? To give birth? It doesn’t take that long. A crown appears, a head…

Chigguns’

everything hinges on death their own black heart locks the armed chickens within their copper jacketed cage of bitter fruit wood ankle deep in…