inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls

WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night

(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker

we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity

sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two

Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools

Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection

SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…

GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…

Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…

My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party

I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be

we saw your burnished footprints in the soft beach sand followed them across the sea and through the shattered sky beyo… ‘one small step for man’, he said

I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies