Metamorphose

Being transformed

Black fields of burning
the shade of when the flame goes out
Closed lids pried…

Breaking In

A large stone building lay in front of him, surrounded by thorny fences and the only entrance flanked by guards. He could never make it…

Poetry | Toxic Workplace | Trust

A Letter to the Puppet

I regret trusting you

The Patience of Juan Bobo

Or a road not taken

The Last Sunflower of Summer

In its wide-eyed youth,
the last sunflower had followed
the bright star’s steady arc
across the open-ended…

Dear Frances

Did you find your peace over the rainbow?

Triumphant Sadness

Fiction

“I’ve done it. I’ve done it! I’ve done!!”

Candy?

The sun was setting, the park got quieter, and I grew calmer. An evening walk always helps. I settled down comfortably at one of the lonely…

Our Devices Measure Time But Do We Keep Time?

Humans wanting to measure time created devices but are…

Tick

I was always my biggest threat

Beauty in Everything

Re-wiring the way we feel about Grief

An Incantation

In the itchy haze
of half-spent
afternoon
she’s splayed
on grass;
a flaccid balloon
dizzy in the drone
of hissing
cicadas
wishing…

Girls Talking to Men

It is shameful to think our society to be civilized where girls who are an equal…

Queen of the Andes

Poetry

Puya Raimondi

Until Death Do Us Part

A love that wasn’t meant to be

One Dead Bird

Poem

Salvos echo in the mute, grey morning

October

Haiku

Keeper of the flame
iridescent sparks escape
ignite the forest

A Benign Portrait of Our Image

The fist unfurling to sketch