The sun is out and glistens. The tree bends under breeze. The electric blue sky holds more than my mind. Ramblings; words that mean nothing in the static, nothing in the sky. Birds are only specks way up high, moving like fish against the blue. An eye that opens to see the edge before it…
Category: Poetry
Launch Party for The Canticle: Publication of My Poem
Today I attended the Launch Party for the University of Utah’s Literary Journal The Canticle. I read my poem, ‘Ready to Eat’, and enjoyed listening to the other contributors readings. I want to thank the Head Editor, Sally G., for putting together and publishing this years journal as well as my boyfriend, Dallas, who took…
Announcement: Poem Publication in The Canticle
Hello Readers! I am just announcing that another one of my poems, this time ‘Ready To Eat‘, will be published and released in the University of Utah‘s Literary Journal The Canticle (Spring 2017) ! This is the second year in a row that a poem of mine has been published in The Canticle and I…
Freehand Poem #4: BLOOD (Revision)
Free Hand #4 (version one) The blood that seeps into Cracks and crevices of rock and stone. Tile, carpet, wood. Painting painting Painting the night with a sweetest, irony Scent. Touch the edge, smear the finger tips. Rouge the red, on the bathroom floor. Parts of you, parts of us all, in the blood On…
Self Immolation [a poem]
A piece I am working on, inspired by the self sacrifice of Thic Quang Duc (1963). The sun set softly in a sea of gold, a hell under the flesh erupted into flames that climbed up the spine, engulfing the head. Enlightenment and flesh boiled in glorious colors that illuminated the eyes of onlookers….