A Knock crisp welcoming voice of the wrenhow her incantations I long to hearbut she placed her voice in a boxher color, joy, and song buried near wailing calls soft, tiny bulbs hoist sailoak tree slain by a dismal, frail windroots glisten in the sun, a forest-sickmy body dismantled, like my friend To continue reading,…
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Editor’s Pick, “One Petal at a Time,” Live on HotelMasticadores
It is an honor to be featured today on Hotel Masticadores by Michelle Ayon Navajas as the “Editor’s Pick!” She did this for the anniversary of my book, One Petal at a Time. She is especially gracious, as she is releasing an anthology titled After Rain Skies – A Global Anthology to encourage a connection with…
The Cure – Live on HotelMasticadores
The Cure slow motion sobriety stirs direly like ticks on a thin-horned beast the black and white film resonates greasy black hair crawls like ants drunk for weeks, the smell lingers like a mucous trail of a banana slug blood dances a tango in your head vomit and snot, well-oiled fireworks explode on your white…
“Saturday” by Joni Caggiano ©️2025
Saturday cropping memorieslike daisy haircutsbuttery scent sashaypigment blendingmerging, like yolksvision murmurs from easelhis canvas callsendless love linestrokes from brushhis connection to lifetimid she saunters behind golden hatuntil delicate his murmurations of lovemingled with ardent touch cause her to capturerays of sunlightwarm with passionmoments forever lured into lovewith an artistand his frame Hoping that in this…
Beautiful Review Of “One Petal At A Time” By D. Wallace Peach
The wonderful D. Wallace Peach posted a beautiful review on GoodReads that is soon to be on Amazon. Here is the beginning: Readers who gravitate toward lush, emotional poetry won’t want to miss this generous offering of over 80 freeform poems. Though I don’t often read Author’s Notes and Forewords, these heartfelt and eloquent introductions…
Exciting News, Yours Truly Nominated For Spillwords Publication Of The Year For “Worn Slap Out”!
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Spillwords Press NYC, Dagmara, and staff for the honor of being nominated for Publication of the Year for 2025 for “Worn Slap Out.” Thank you to all those who voted for me in June. This is a piece written in the North Carolina dialect from the…
”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…
“Sand Shifts” Now On Spillwords
Sand Shifts sand shifts, flickering, like diamond lusterdragonflies move their wings independently, hoveringripe figs gingerly nudge tiny limbs, so her fruit falls from treesdahlias slowly open their multi-colored hearts to give pollen to bees oceans play on sand that has layers of treasures like petals on a floretskillful hands tenderly peel away veils that cover…
“Marry-Go-Round” Now Live On Hotel Masticadores
Marry-Go-Round trails of guilt, a stony terrainset in sad eyes like doleful stonesfledglings snarled in hollow ribbonsbirthing anguish in once-happy homes black and white film swallowschoices in love’s marry-go-roundlike a deer’s empty tummy at nightor birds that harmonize without sound singing rivers have no place to bendfissures grow in me where ravens weeplove twists secrets…
