The Return to Light

Darkness paints with a wild wet brush,
spreading lies and discontent.
Hard to see, hard to breathe, hard to be.
What’s known…

Mud

Part 1 of 3

The hardest part about it was digging the hole….

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Laurel

My Laurel, my love, so bright, the mountains
themselves could not explain your lustrous light.
Even as the sun — that golden fountain
dripping over…

Mud: Part 4: Final

She’d already dug the hole. All they’d have to do was cover her up.

Mud Part 3

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Water

I want to be
the water
in the lake
deep blue silk
content in her shores
never completely still
but peaceful
roaming bank to bank
held steadfast
in…

Mud: Part 2

That’s why, even now, she couldn’t blame her father for introducing her to Sawyer Hudson at seventeen…