in the night it raged wind swirled, thunder clapped sky lit up in quick flashes of light like a cosmic disco dance in the morning, its anger lay strewn about with broken limbs, dredges of leaves while gusts of wind remind me of the fury above the earth 4.6.17

i pass a house on my walk so quaint and full of bliss i wonder if asleep inside princesses await love’s true kiss outside, i spy a baby’s bed where purple flowers bloom enchanted place for fairy play a magical bedroom as a child, i built them homes nestled under groves of trees from moss, …

sprinkler spraying waterlogged grass pounded by rain from the night before the day stays dark like perpetual dusk and the trees sink a little with soggy leaves all is a little bit blacker today as we brace for more remnants of the passing storm 4.4.17

my mind is filled with quiet today the words refused to dance like a well too dry to fill your cup so patient, you wait for rain i’m at the mercy of silent thoughts until the dance begins again 4.3.17

hopes wrap around me like climbing grape vines i bite their sweet fruit as they intertwine when finally i’m bound up in my desire i come to realize i’ve been undermined 4.2.17