• Flash Fiction – “Every other Soldier” – 300 words – 9/28/2022

    She tells my pain to wait. As if water can fall after I’ve twisted a knob to a faucet. This heart, twisted, knotted in its infinite veins, spread like tree roots to an age of a tree that has already fallen. These eyes have gained flashes. All those empty rooms, filled with one more hollow…

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  • Flash Fiction – “In the Gray of every Day” – 600 words – 9/28/2022

    Herein lies a crippled horse. He struggles to find a way to walk. Tears have left him burning on a slope that moves his eyes always down. Why will he always look down? To feet that never move him. To scars that never leave him. They are remade to be ripples within hardening soil, though…

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  • I’ll hold.Hold your head close.Under these waves,where stars burn down. All those symptoms.Synonymous. With the shot that occurs.In the dark. In the dark.Under our hearts,where waters have come down.Crashing in the dark.Crashing against us,devoted while apart. We have held.Our oceans are never one.With sands that fill around,hourglasses and empty sound. Time is a grain in,with…

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  • Wide letters.We were holding on,while recognizing.Those shapes. These marks.They have stuck like glueto these gray hauntsin the washing blue. Worded. Remembered.Burning ships that tag along.Fated noosesthat hold up bottled necks. Stored messages for the sea.Stored letters that go unseen. Who shall hear our screams?Who shall worship our stars,put out near firelightwhere we ignite another rose?…

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  • “Feminism has inadvertently implied that men will be to blame for this world’s crisis, in its definition of what it means to fall. To die. To be in love. In essence, to protect and to take the blame for struggle.” – Modern Romanticism What does it mean for a man to love? What does it…

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  • Prose Poem – “Ease while He Breathes” – 9/21/2022

    Who knocks on his door? No entry. No pulse. Please give him ease. A nurse bathed in white; for I say, he has not yet left. I give him ease, with his hand held in mine. I give him relief, with his breath taken into mine. A leftover. A winter’s clover. As luck will have…

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  • Loose notes. She lost her voice. Repeated words, undressed in rhythmic syllables, while she: she hung onto heartbeats. She hung onto sound. Lost in her voice. A kiss deserted in her skin. A phase dug from her wounds. Hoped to be temporary. Forgotten into a memory. A moment that loses control, while she: she hung…

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  • Poem – “Blindness through Scars” – Love Poetry – 9/20/2022

    Sharp eyes,fortified, amplified,noticing her worldbare, on a one-way roadthat comes, goes,repeats in a world of anguish,scarring tissue, leavingher as forgotten, with handheldmoments, that areemptier than when we arenoticing those leavesshe lets fall fromblossomed cheeks. What do we comprehend,when those letters of hersare crumpled, with her heart?Drenched, torn openin those vulnerable cueswhere skies go from darkinto…

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  • Poem – “As Hollow Shapes” – Grief Poetry – 9/19/2022

    Pain follows its footstep,under where we criedwith blue in its dimmest hue,wired in this shelterwhere storms never pass,deserving usborn upon another,bleeding where weare distantly smothered. Thunder fadesto come, again, as weare each crack in a treethat grows if only to showwhat it did not know. We are those flamesthat conceal ourbrittle wounds. Nothing tolive for,…

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  • Poem – “Responding to you” – Love Poetry – 9/18/2022

    Muted, in thesefaces of grief,poisoned in a shellthat keeps revealingpictures from Hell.Your eyes,a cross between voids,carrying memoriesthat keep me fadingsomewhere betweengray and a passing day. Near to whereyou rest, under meas I kneel here,kissing sands, holding handswith a symptom that nevergoes away. A set sun,a green verdureforest that escapesme, into dark,where memories arefragrances in perfume,in…

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  • Poem – “Without Turning Red” – Grief Poetry – 9/18/2022

    All those sirensshriek to soundingdoomsday, in itshelpless gray,no different than anyblank page that laysas those curtainsto keep our hopes lessenedwhile our tears soakour outheld hands, withour hearts becoming silentin this new day. Another dawn, anothercoming of another age,though withall our rewritten pages,resaid vows, we arewritten twice, though aresplit between vice,split between wordswe froze into icewhile…

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  • Poem – “Don’t go” – Grief Poetry – 9/13/2022

    Sheltered undermusical thunder.You’ve opened your coffinto take deafening steps,forward. Can you send a tearback to these fieldswhere I remain buried?A heart had been a conductorwith electrical cords,while silenced communicationleft me with those stormsI cannot see,while you turn to fleebeyond these puddles,beyond mirrors. Entrance to a different room,while our memories sail onwithout reaching doom.You walk insidea…

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