Abalone Shell

Abalone Shell

https://intentionalthriving.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/zoom_2.mp4   Abalone Shell Standing here: in the .         center .                   of a shell, toes touching grass blades surrounded by vacant structures. A weathered storm window off its hinges, .         ...
Bone Maps

Bone Maps

~ In a pile of papers, I found my mother’s x-ray images. And these words emerged as I approached a memory day. Bone Maps My mom’s bones glow through translucent glossy wax, spaces frayed by disconnection a body attacking its own cells, breaking down life force....
Fairy Breath Rising

Fairy Breath Rising

Drops of sweat sizzle down sanguine cheeks. Exhale. Feet barely lifting through stifling air over sweltering asphalt. Inhale. Wiping steam off eyelashes. while dew beads line burning shoulders. Exhale Passing new cedar’s green growth, movement ever so minute into the...
Lines of the Web

Lines of the Web

Lines of the Web silky spider threads hyphened like an Ezra thought from an invisible pen the wolf spider hangs meticulously on a high wire disturbed by a falling leaf wolf spider dashed orbiting radiant throne waiting for a jeweled crown the pestulant fly attracted...

Tucked

Women carry the worries tucked   in the fold of our skirts.   We find our sorrow in the comfort of night  Holding onto a teardrop in the sun’s dawn.  ...