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Deserted Tuesday
Posted on April 4, 2014 Leave a Comment
Ostensible and apparent, abandonment leaps, spreads into the front wheel – clips my easy-pedaled haste, glimpsing a shine in the driveway of the commonplace. Before I torment home, the words are formed, but float away unspoken, understood. A tour of momentum is about the words formed and said – ineptness of speech in a vortex […]
Shock
Posted on March 31, 2014 Leave a Comment
Fog-lit halos ignite from darkness, astonished by persistence, admonished by perseverance. Stun and sun are hand in hand in bewilderment, only half aware of perfunctory alarm. No surprise, no shock advised. In the past are feet up recollections of diet Cokes fizzing next to ACLS manuals, heads up, 5 Hs and Ts, lingering rescue breaths […]
Rula
Posted on March 19, 2014 Leave a Comment
Don’t look at me with your how-did-that-happen face, all feathered fake, mocked and melted – reflecting futile damp looks through synthetic and tangled lengths. It’s your hunched shoulders, rounded to knees bent covered, misshapen and strained, that give away your terror; but it’s the waning tremor, retreating dark and raspy – later balanced gingerly, gently […]
Pieta
Posted on March 13, 2014 1 Comment
I am the color of white sand at midnight, and Jameson slides through my veins like impossible ice peremptorily frozen in its own wake of impracticality – inside me devoid of warmth, but full of the strongest molecules of misery my blood is incapable of covalence repelling all directional attraction I am the hooded mother […]
The Gift of Dreams Realized
Posted on March 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
Mothers spend a considerable amount of time daydreaming about the future of their unborn children ~ especially mothers relegated to bed rest at any point during pregnancy. In the left side-lying position I was obligated to assume for the last month before my son, David, was born in November of 2000, I often dreamt of […]
Beyond Loss
Posted on October 16, 2013
David and Goliath: The Story of How My Kid Fought Life’s Battles…and Won Everyone knows the story of David and Goliath, right? David is weak. A small fry. He is the inconsequential youth who triumphs over his giant foe, Goliath, with only a small sling and a stone (oh, yeah, and also God), only to […]
A Girl by the Bridge 
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