(2013)
My father is dead, still he speaks through me; “Don’t say anything....OR ELSE!… There was plenty of “OR ELSE!” to go around.
I gaze into the bleakness of the e… engulfed by a sense of futility an… I am like the man who keeps fishin… though he knows the river is spent… I cast my line into the milky pool…
Alone, in the same old crowd, trying to ignore this stifling pain. I am but
How are you? The maiden turned and whispered soft, her turquoise eyes as deep as time.
What lingers within me is ancient… prepared for the worst of all poss… No matter how deeply I rest while… it’s forever awake, coiled and rea… It seems to be from before there w…
That blue-gray rainy day, the blue-gray funeral parlor. There you were laid out in blue and gray. So still.
I have suffered much while upon this earth, so aching to belong. To whom, or what, or why?
There’s a voice deep inside getting stronger every day. I cannot deny the message these urgent words proclaim. Why bother?
I’m not angry with you. I am hurting, and as usual, I don’t know why. I don’t know why I cry
These words are crude utensils, with which to touch you, and be touched;
I come to the village well today, though without a need to drink. My worldly thirst now quenched, with home and hearth supplied. I am here to fill a deeper vessel
Beloved goddess, sweet holy mother of us all, you who beckon me throughout these hectic days
My beloved, she has abandoned me. What’s left is a stark white canva… that repels application of hue or… Hopelessly, I gaze into the bleak… She is gone,
I am your greatest grandmother calling softly on the ocean winds. I was never lost to you forever, only swallowed by the other half o… Come down with me to the quiet pla…
Seems no way out, but deep within. There’s a resonant voice calling from the depths of my being; I am not what you imagine me to be…