written 1999
She’s having her party early Today Otis Cornelius Skinner’s away She’ll play with her dogs She’ll play with her cats
Look at her so high, so high, She has reached the sky! She jumped on a cloud where it was… And, of course, she holds on with… Her swing is down there, and what…
She has so many penpals But they’re pretty much the same Except for their hometowns And all of their names. She has one from Italy and Berlin
Nobody knows how she feels inside, For her feelings she continues to… Oh how she wishes that someone wou… And forever accept her for who she… “But you’re too weird,” they conti…
Chanting winds licked flames To a frenzy as nations Danced 'round a circle. Winds carried the song Upon waves as the Piper
Secret places Have treasures of mysteries Inner thoughts hidden Conceal unfounded knowledge Broken hearts wounded
The scent of a blossom So fragrant and frail Beauty of such quality As like told in a fairy tale. A symbol of life
Veracious blood has finally come,… Can’t the world love each other as… Anger, rage has to overcome. She listens to the man’s humble wo… How he raped many sistas and gave…
There’s an angel here among them,… His eyes are blue, his skin is sof… He walks this earth beside her, he… He has taught her to express herse… His spirit flows right through her…
So now, you say, you are fifty-fiv… And that you are all grown up and… And you think you are smarter—wise… (Yesser! that is just what she was… At what age do they learn right fr…
A garden of roses sitting alone, All beautiful petals gently Shown, One white rose with powers So great,
One of the most curious and enjoyable aspects of poetry is that a poem often summarizes a thought, an experience, or an emotion in a manner that cannot be equaled by prose. Perhaps that...
Why is it always the simple man wh… When the program calls for dying? A simple man who rarely gets confu… Enjoys a drink with friends, the s… The sound of seas, the smell of a…
Kokopelli, Kokopelli, far-off cal… Silver notes like star-shine falli… Warm as honey, warm as semen, midn… Silver strands into her dreaming. Hard-lived in days of turquoise sk…
They stand together—those three, Like the birch, clumped outside he… Joined by a common root. Different; yet the same Bent by winds of time and