Even a gull can FLY.*   ... read more

Oh, please, no dogs.....*   ... read more

Crimson and loons on the lake,ancient reflections calm,  wait. As if her father called, she turns from beautyinto fading light,  sapwood flexes,a gap widens, she steps through.*   ... read more

Stars of sky fall to earth. He holds in his mouththe alphabet of her name,one more kiss, engine of the mind racing on gleaming tracks of love.*   ... read more

Truth, never completely dormant,late at nightcalling, like a strange bird. And gradual awareness—There it is! Again!—distant, sounding like a train,insistent, but easily ignored.*   ... read more

She dislikes numbers: a black hole with specslike stars, continuously sucked in, heavy, out of sight. Except zero,outside it all,holding all possibilitylike hope.* ... read more

Eddie of corn snow,ice sgraffito over a backed-up storm drain,this crisp morning she decidesBeauty's consistentlysomewhat out of place:the stun of daffodils.* ... read more

His accent slightly foreigntroubled her. "Don't forget My cross."She heard "...crows." So she fed them,tossed them her trinkets. Endless sacrificebegetting love.* ... read more

Death's pendulum stills,guilt spilt from the hourglass. StalledDefeatedExposed. She weeps,sweeping the love with her handsuncovering wings in the sand. * ... read more

She pulled on dirty socksin solidarity with the disciples,who anticipated Monday.Stiff, dry and salty.  Fishing again. Threading needles.Darning holes.* ... read more

It's the way of stories, she said,trouble angles in slowly like night falling, urgency needles between the shoulders,the hero's unaware... * ... read more

Deciding to lose the parts of her she didn't like,she minimized expression, smiled without showing teeth,then disappeared into nothing.* ... read more