With the holidays approaching, I thought it would be fun to write a short group of poems based on one of my favorite stories of the season, A Christmas Carol!
Christmas Past
In...
They say something happens the first storm of the season.
As November’s first snow approached, I stared bewildered.
For this time–it wasn’t just the snow I saw.
In the midst of...
Memory had a sister. Nobody could ever remember her name, though not for lack of trying. Sometimes, Memory wished she could forget. Deja vu was the most annoying little sister anyone could’ve ever asked...
I remember the day it all fell down.
I remember the day the old world drowned.
The school’s numbers were empty, the hospital’s high,
As thousands and thousands sat at home and cried.
For...
Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling a frond in mist;
such grace cannot force a thought unwished.
An act of violence is revelation:
shock and realization.
Revelation comes as...
Ready or not
Here I come
I’ve counted to
7, 12, 15, years now
Come out
Where ever you are.
Perhaps I can
Find myself under the
Bed with monsters under
In the jaded...
“Mama, mama! Tell us a bedtime story!” Bob and Millie squealed, their beaks bobbing up and down like quaking aspen leaves.
“Into bed you both go, come on now.”
“But mama,” Millie pleaded,...
Each day
Each night
A new girl arrives
A warped version of the person who was there to begin with
And each day each night she pushes on shedding her old skin like a caterpillar trying and...
Once upon a time, there was a girl who drowned between the pages of books. She had always loved reading, ever since she was young. Then, she read a book that broke her heart. She spent the rest of her...
Shoelaces
Untied and tripping
Our laughter bouncing off the walls of this castle that is ours to adventure.
Shoelaces
2 perfect bows
Even loops arranged artfully on each...
