written 1999
Soft, atramentous vapors Giving life to flowers as she exha… With sensuous breezes Sent deeply into ecstasy’s divine… Drawn fully on every breath she ta…
He lies on a pillow of dreamless n… In a bed of damaged feelings. He sleeps in a room of forbidden t… In a house of bungled dealings. He lives in a town of lost hopes,
Safe, Hidden inside this room. He ventures to explore the univers… Gone, From inside this room.
Darkness, darker Waning noon, sounds Night’s scent pervades Calling loneliness, Surrounding.
Once upon a midnight dreary, as he… All the multitudinous forms which… Suddenly there came a tapping, the… Had she caught him nearly napping?… Only she and no one more.
She likes eating shoes Eights, twelves or even twos. All day long she eats, eats, eats. She eats them off of people’s feet… She can’t stand it, she’s going wi…
Live for today. Come what may. No thoughts of tomorrow. No time for sorrow. Dreams come so fast.
But there was a window That standing silently Over the garden, peered out To the broken moon light And shade, and watched
She was a lost rose She wonders where she’ll end up She hears voices within She sees bright days and rainy one… She wants to be somebody
He can’t believe they’re into anot… And Valentine’s Day is oh so near… He needs new sweet nothings to whi… But after years of marriage, mixed… What more can he say, what gift ca…
The time they have will never end. A dream of hers that will begin. A heart and soul that will soon me… From when it was torn in two. A cry for help that’s finally been…
Still water in the beaver pond Songbirds tune to a trumpeter swan Willow waves like a maestros wand Ol’ Chickahominy sings her song Big ol’ bullfrog singin’ bass
Days in school were very hard. Ways to make him “right”, they tri… Wrong, is how teacher said he wrot… Long hours they drilled on change. Hide his talent, was all he did;
She didn’t step on a sidewalk crac… So thank goodness her Mother won’… Yet when she opened the apple cide… It smelled and tasted like apple j… She didn’t break the mirror giving…
She longs for spring In waiting to see What her garden will bring Tired of seeing trees Without leaves