I had an idea—three lines, turned and polished with wax and oil and whatever else wood and rock and glass need to astound the...

Flickers of light haunt the edges of my vision like will-o'-the-wisps in bogs and marshes or flashing headlights on the street below as...

I don't know how people can write poems about daffodils I could draw a daffodil Paint a daffodil But write about one? What is there to...

With my eyes trained down at the rain-spattered pavement, I saw her step on a leaf. In her wake, I looked down at it, pausing for a...

Someone somewhere said that the sky is falling. Tilting my head back, I look up. The clouds have split into a quilt ripped at the seams....

Closing my eyes, I hug the duvet closer and sink my cheek into the pillow. Finally I can let go, breathe in, breathe out. I can stop...

The signs are all off. I can't read them anymore. A pressure here, a dull ache there used to tell me the time of the month. A downpour, a...

The snow is twelve inches deep where people don't walk. Winding paths disappear under layers and layers, only visible by the outline of...

They talk about a golden sunset and a pink dawn, but forget the soft warmth of a sunrise that merges them both. Soft white and gold coat...

We flitter like shopping lists and napkins in the wind, used, discarded, tools to remind ourselves of what we need. Food. Health. Across...

So then we hugged. But then, as I felt their arms wrapping around me, pulling me into their chest, it became an embrace. I found myself...

blue ice is cold ice is layers of crystallised layers merged into rolling plasticity that grinds the rock and digs digs digs until it...

The birds come out again at midnight, twittering, whistling, chirping. Or maybe it is first now, emerging from the haze induced by...

She figures herself as a scientist, or perhaps someone doing a jigsaw, as she examines and rearranges the pieces of his body, readjusting...

We rise at dawn with fury in our eyes, dreams still burning bright within our hearts and minds, muscles tensing as we prepare to take on...

I sit here watching As they storm in Marching forward As the cops march back They scale the walls And someone holds zip cuffs They were...

I pick up a shell encrusted with corals and plan to bring it home. Let it sit in the window, between the basil and the fruit basket. The...

We clinked our champaign glasses and said "go to the gym once a week" "go on a diet" "read a book a day" "start an online course" "move...

A spider spins a weave over my bed, clambering with legs moving mechanically and I can almost imagine the taptaptap of claws tapping...

He sits on the porch when the storm arrives, wind and rain hurling hail at his feet like heaps of pearls washed up by a raging sea to...