A Boy a Ball a Butterfly

A poem

A Boy, a Ball, a Butterfly

Shadow-Boxing

Poetry

Sunlight cracks the dawn,

What One Hundred Dollars Can Do

How to change a life for better or worse

What Happens When a ‘Good Girl’ Becomes a Raging Rebel

Will my entire life be a fierce battle

The Window

Healing found in broken things

When You Need Me

You are drunk but you’re still my sweetheart

Trauma — Relationships and Latex

How to survive your rotten dead boss who postpones her own funeral

2012

I went to the centre of town last night. The atmosphere was electrically charged, with static buzzing through the air. Fragments: magnetic…

Ripped Lace

Ripped lace — the scattered spume froths amongst the rough pewter

For the Love of Shiny Shoes and Holiday Cheer

It’s a real Christmas miracle when a crook goes straight

Do Ordinary Single Moms Have Secrets? #9

This one does.

A Deathbed Lament

To my mother

Mom’s heart stopped
like the watches and clocks
in Hiroshima
frozen at 8:15…

Sidewalks

A poem

pounding the pavements
of my brain
to keep my mind 
off of you.
my core,
an eternal construction area
a…

Let’s Be

Let’s dance to the memories of yester-moments

“The wind that sometimes take…

Waves a Memory of Samson

Humans have sought freedom from the beginning — society seeks them to conform

How Life Should Be

Poetry in reflection

Surrender to the World

Take me as I am

Blue Moon

Greater than what’s come before

Instapoets

A poem on Instapoetry

The Barely Present

Flash fiction

Once upon a time, there were strangers taking in the…

An Uncompromising Hate

I told you once before this will never stop until you can let go of your hate