Behold Her

You don't look at me You used to Though it was never to see beauty Was beauty there? In your eye, I wonder Cracks and specks Errant things All disected and discerned, under your eye All the little things, The desperate things The shame-filled things Left to wonder How desperate I was To have your [...]

Lights Out on Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve and the power is out. I decided to spend a little time writing, but before I finished the piece I was working on on my laptop, the battery supplying power to the modem went out. No more wifi. I'm in the dark, in a rapidly cooling house. And there's no wifi. Far [...]

Stardust

We are Stardust Moulded into perfect shapesUnique and beautiful You have fallen So very far from meLostBut I will always find youThe loops and swirls of my fingerprints A map of the galaxy A path back to youYour signature etched in the sky,I will followUntil the day you are wrapped in these armsHome. Safe, among [...]

The Profound Silence of Creation

Wow. What a title. No pressure there.I was sitting on the train this morning, thinking about a conversation I recently had with a friend.We were discussing all the balls we have in the air, juggling our creative lives, including the desire for creative lives, and our workaday lives, and it came to me (as it [...]