Brushing My Hair
What if hair represents luxury And the brush stands for pleasure And the scissors are the reaper Or maybe the hair represents beauty And the brush is for smoothing problems over And the blades of …
You Know You’re Dreaming When …
A man in a white unitard leaps into the air turns upside down, dangles there, no net no wires, just him, upside down in mid-air … … and no one snaps a picture
The Place of the Poet
I try to notice Everything about this room: The windows, long, low and stretching to the floor, The blankets woven with The sure weight of comfort, The yellows of late afternoon When rain is done, …
Deja Dream
The young woman in a baseball cap says her name is Dia. “Dia?” I ask, “meaning day?” “No,” she says, “it’s spelled D-E-J-A-H.” Someone named Dream gave her the name when she was a baby, …
Dreamwalker
Green lizard slithers down the hall A lizard in the house! I want to run, but instead I follow, curious. I live with you, small green creature, I will know you. I fly just above …
Mother Sits
Alone at the table Too tired To do her job And so, the fresh Cut flowers are not In vases brightening The dreary rooms This is one house She won’t decorate Into cheerfulness. Those days, …
Dear Donkey: Asleep after debating Truth with S
Dear God, I pray. You might just as well say Donkey, you reply.
Substack
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