DANCE IN INK

King Tut Was a mutt With big floppy ears And a large wiggling rear. We hugged him til he cried And kissed til he sighed, We loved that...

The wind ran in little dashing dents inside the Sheets of rain hitting the parched ground. I stood outside on the wetted concrete,...

Today, I am stuffed to the capacity With words and ideas, And they continue in their Relentless way. Soon, I will burst and overflow Like...

When I was sobbing on the kitchen floor, A bird perched on the sill and sang A song, And in my sorrow I heard a cry of pain And agreed...

We’re all grown up now, Doing big grown up things, No longer carefree children, To adulthood we bow. Friends we grew up with Leave us; do...

Pure indigo darkness lay upon the land And sat on the mountains and meditated Within the piny forests And everything was still and silent...

This evening, skies, you are pastel blue with a wide ribbon of salmony pink. There is a white orange peeking out behind the clouds. We...

You are crouching in the shadowed corners, Your bones are broken and your powerful Wings are featherless and hanging limply, And you are...

My current obsession is words, long ones, with three or four syllables, the kind that roll off of your tongue, the kinds you savour, and...

Late at night the smoky night drifted through the window, The dusky fires building in the western skies, And I, I stood and watched the...

I want to be strong, I tell the grass. I revel in the spiky feel of green on my naked feet. I want to be strong, to spring up like you do...

Hello, fellow homo sapiens held down by gravity on this spinning sphere in space. Your hand is heavy on my head, Like thousands of years...

I read a book this afternoon about a juvenile delinquent. Her parents signed her up for a wilderness therapy. She hated it, raged at...

How many poetic ways can you say, It’s raining. It‘s raining. And windy. And sun-dried laundry. And stir-fry. And Soba noodles. ... It’s...

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, and thinking of the ones who lost their dads. Congratulations, Micah and Alyssa, and Steven...

Hello to all. It was pretty today, sunny and warm, but not too warm. Perfect Mondays. I ate lunch with a friend, bought stuff for school,...

Iridescent butterfly flutters around the door to my soul, Begging entrance to my secrets, But I only let the old moths come in and feast,...

No pain, no gain. That’s what they say. I went to the dunes with my friends on Saturday. We all failed to bring sunscreen along. We...

I walked along the sea this morning when the sun was just waking up. The surface of the sea was colored in orange and pink and traced in...

Buenos. It was a muggy day. I cleaned today, came home, ate two slices of pizza, a hamburger and all the fixings, crunched a...