You walk like a wounded cliché
an unprecedented comma
separates you from the others.

You’re in love with the games
that you play in your mind.
In you...

The Magician’s box arrived at precisely 10 a.m.  The UPS guys, didn’t even blink twice when you signed for it. Then together we struggled to drag that thing into your garage. Yo...

This is how it happened.

Yesterday on my way to work.

I stepped on a dead toad….

Your face came/ in a flash

Unbidden memory.

An elec...

I pack my grief in ridiculous looking boxes
So I can feel safe for a while.
Your fingers touch my skin, without warning.
Objects crumble under the weight of their names.

Peter packed his photographs post permission from persnickity Albert- the fabulous, pontificating, palaverous, bossman. Peter was pleasantly surprised with the precipitous reaction of the ants o...

As the boy closes his eyes, a dream unfolds of his former life... " When was I ever a child?" he asks. He shuffles: dates, numbers scribbled on chalk, restaurant receipts; an inscription on a we...

                                &n...

An anonymous exchange on a train:
eyes to eyes, skin on skin,
lipstick on your collar,
memory of a leather glove;
pink champagne left unclaimed
on a bar table,
a pa...

It's a door that has existed as early as time. Nobody knows its reason for existing. Nobody questions its identity. And since anytime a person steps into the door, by the time he or she has reac...

Our toes playing hide and seek beneath the sand.
When it’s time to come home, the sea always finds us.

this stone was once a river,

the sea was once a little bird

that died of thirst,

the sky was not always here,

it was once a child,

&nb...

The city lights stretch as far as the eyes could see.
The tall buildings dwarf our bodies.
Instantly making us feel lonely & lost,
& a little afraid of our future.
...

Death found me by the river.
His voice is sweet like wine.
His cup flowed heavy with love.

He said I could sleep in his arms,
& that he would lick my mortal wounds<...

I wipe away sleep from my eyes to catch a glimpse
of these winged creatures ghosting at my window.
I've often wondered why moths are attracted to light.
I think...

A change of weather
as you enter
The room.
You bring with you the ocean

If all the lights in the city go out tonight.
Have no fear my love, We will meet by starlight.

 

&...

The Man o' War doesn't want to fight.
He just wants to give you a fright!  

         [BOO HOO!!!!!]

&n...