Keyless is my lock, yet I readily surrender myself completely, to my thinning skin with shadows of whispers and prickling flesh. Secrets buried beneath a stratum of my dried and cracking crust, as my haunting heart hungers for a yielding stillness, I can truly trust, until my essence is so sweetly scented fading back into … Continue reading Lockless
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Climbing Trees
Sweat oozed from my pores as I ran toward the barnSand spurs stung the bottoms of my fleeing feetAs I sprinted wildly toward Margie's southern farmI prayed my drunk daddy would do me no harm In the woods, I had played with dollies and climbed treesThe big three, one with a treehouse I had visited … Continue reading Climbing Trees
Stream of Tears
Smooth white rocks line the familiar bedA sad child sits close beside me by the streamProviding me a harbor where I come to scream. Yabbies, mountain lobster or mudbugsCrawdads swimming against Nature's mirrorI point them out to the girl who is now nearer. Appalachian bristle fern surrounds usNo one will attend my nursing graduationI share … Continue reading Stream of Tears
Once Treeless
Paralyzed by emotions, dismal visions haunt my eye’s memoryFaces in plates, probing hands of strangers, and the smell of pee.Fairy letters under wet pillow laid, hoping they will set me free. A veil of melancholy wraps me like a cocoon as dread is calling.Our neighbor plucks buckshot from the leg, her husband’s shot.The smell of … Continue reading Once Treeless
Slowly Cracking
Oh unholy time, save me from that which creepeth all too near,Enclose me not into a world, to wait in turn decay.For it is the sticky spiders' web, my untimely senses do fear.Upon a Lilly pad afloat I wish to lie, until another day.From all, and all from me, sharing only nature's sweetish kiss.Adorned butterflies … Continue reading Slowly Cracking
We Dance For Silence
Like a snake sheds his skin so go we, those of us who bravely venture onFilled with heightened senses as vigilantly, we quietly roam till dawn. Exposed our emotions on our shoulders perched like the raven black,Hearing whispers, feeling stares, why we grow eyes high upon our back. Lost amongst the others, those who gather, but wonder … Continue reading We Dance For Silence
Beautiful Young Pin Cushion
Have you ever sensed it The poisonous sting of another? Piercing clothes, skin, muscle and bones Needles poking, pushing deeply into your eyes Looking away does naught to soothe the tender flesh. Burning bushes of anger deep inside you suddenly awakened Fraught with insecurities laid there deep-rooted by another And intense is the passion of … Continue reading Beautiful Young Pin Cushion
SWEETER THAN THE LARK’S SONG
White perfection like cirrus clouds on a sweltering southern mid-afternoon, Lay the cotton blanket of white whispers speaking hauntingly and softly. My eyes gazing on a snowy speckled pattern, as I could hear melodic singing. Melancholy voices, expressions shared while talking of their joint sorrows, Bended aching backs and thin arms carrying heavy sacks of the … Continue reading SWEETER THAN THE LARK’S SONG
A CHILD’S PRAYER
I close my eyes and lay down my head, and I am thankful that my bellies fed. Thank you, God, for my mom and dad, and please help me to be good, not bad. Thank you, God, I was not teased today, And please God keep all the guns away,So my friends and I can … Continue reading A CHILD’S PRAYER
Up-Side-Down World
Confusion, the perplexing reality which made no sense to me, Living trapped within its walls was not the place for youth to be. Vomiting, drinking, peeing in the closet, on shoes, my only pair, My mom running through the neighborhood naked in the night, News in the paper, now at school, where judging eyes would … Continue reading Up-Side-Down World
