Roller Coasters

I don’t do well with emotional roller coasters. I also don’t do well with real life ones, either. For the emotional ones, the unforgiving combination of my wild imagination and a ready-to-go slideshow of all the heartbreaks and disappointments that paint the walls of my memory only serve to stoke the flames of what-if’s that […]

Whisper

A sliver of a whisper, dark ghost of a tale floated into being, directed at a broken cage to weigh down, perhaps, or to tarnish the glow of a new heart beating… Deja vu of a whisper, ancient but familiar… poised on a stage, an unknowing audience, an unsieved unit, to draw out a sparkle […]

Waiting to Dance

The music starts. Yet feet don’t move. Or even shuffle in tandem. There is a silent wait. To dance. To be free. Together. First moves and leads unsure and unknown. Waiting to dance. The music continues. I stand still. Waiting.     4.17.2011

Dear Death

You always knock at the door of the young, it seems. I am not writing to piss you off. Trust me. Simply, I am curious as to your methods. You show up, with your hood and sickle, no warning, no audio (for the most part), just a sickening silence and a beckoning that nobody else […]