SCALE WITHOUT MEASURE BY JONI CAGGIANO ©️JAN. 4, 2025

In the late fall of the year of the Dragon, the maple trees let slip from memory the task of turning their leaves.  Yellow carotenes did not fill the leaves, bequeathing the desirous soil below with enviable nutrients.  A spiritless sun went into an impervious mourning at such a loss.  Lady bugs with red and…

”Pheochromocytoma” Now On Chewers Masticadores

Pheochromocytoma She huddles coiled amongst the swath of blackberry with her matrix of thorny needles, spewing forth her painful pricks. Nerve bundles lay excavating within shredded muscles. Pain caused by unsummoned moles that convert and blast into a red-brick wall, a boundary of sanity and lost childhood of her red-brick prison. Pallid pathways etch memories…

“Sunbird” Up For Publication Of The Month On Spillwords

My poem “Sunbird” published earlier this month has been nominated for publication of the month on Spillwords! Please read the original post below to read the poem and be sure to vote at the embedded link below or here. Thanks again to Spillwords for continuing to support fellow writers and artists, and thanks to all…