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sunset

Remember that time?

I remember. Finding you, there seeing you lay so still The air itself dared not to disturb. your frail body, So still…”

Sad woman in the sunset disappearing

I See You

Ex-husband with new woman; This one counts. Words of admiration Roll off his well-kissed lips. He gushes her accomplishments. We’ve been here before.

Doctor

DR. NO RKVRY?

Writer works to get under skin, doc rushes through gore he bathes within… Shrieking from someone else’s…

Girl in White

“In Her Garden” and “Fresh News”

Big mama said she’s plum gone there’s no more chunky, copper moon walking over her head she reserves the right to wear white…

Waves

Guide Him Through

Between lush manicured lawns and dense sheared hedges I walk slowly up the curved path to the wall near the relief sculpture tall as a juniper tree…

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Pills

Things I’ve Learned on the Road

I remember the fire trucks with all the lights flashing and the noise and the woman screaming down the street. I was six, the teachers whispered nervously…

Two Hungers

My breasts once wept at the first musings of a strangers hunger-smacking lips, a pursed, round strawberry and wet with the taste of milk still on the tongue…

Prison Fence

Dog Men (A Prison Story)

On edge of a razor-guarded campus, Marigolds tower to meet drooping pines. Though unaware as cheerful children, Dry Texas earth spells death for them both.