For a perfect moment I turn to touch you with my lips I give you sweet kisses down making you tremble with anticipation I take you to the edge of a precipice— a teeter at the edge of a fall You cling to me but you fall in the rush of your sweet release cryingContinue reading Perfect Moment [poetry]
Black and White [fiction]
There it was in black and white, the feeling that drove Sarah mad—old tingles that used to come in color when she was a teenager. But the passage into adulthood had clouded the rainbow with storms, her eyes searching with a half-smile for the sunlight behind the clouds. Marriage had been a shelter from theContinue reading Black and White [fiction]
Love [fiction]
Again, Sarah was moved, obsessed, reaching out, entwined. Next to her open window, moonlight covered them as they climbed higher; the peak ever closer, closing in; all the right switches connected. And in that moment, she found it, or what she believed it to be: Love! It embraced her in brilliant colors and strengthened herContinue reading Love [fiction]
When Dawn Came (Revisited) [poetry]
It was here one night, among white blossoms and junipers, that we lay and were touched while the rest of the world snored in their small beds. We breathed frost words to breezes on branches, breathing deeply in the deep woods with no earthly destination, hidden behind the pulse of dawn throbbing on a trigger’sContinue reading When Dawn Came (Revisited) [poetry]
When Dawn Came To Us [poetry]
It was here one night among white blossoms that we lay and were touched while the rest of the world snored in their small beds. We breathed frost words on branches breathing deeply in the deep woods with no earthly destination, hidden behind the pulse of dawn throbbing upon a trigger’s touch. You were delicateContinue reading When Dawn Came To Us [poetry]
Our Love [poetry]
We bedded with moss and leaf and sand drenched in that evening’s rain; a shimmering surf at our feet where diamonds and poetry wept on ocean waves. We stirred to passions rising in us, caressing below an unwatched moon. our love open no love closed we found heaven in all disclosed Your breath and sweatContinue reading Our Love [poetry]
Eleventh Hour Ebullience [poetry]
Late in the valley at a house with a ribbon on the door handle She lies upstairs at the hall’s very end Beating her pillow and lowing “you” But it does not matter He is more than her imagination And she imagines the angels keep on him Ride hard, cowgirl Lead him with a darkContinue reading Eleventh Hour Ebullience [poetry]
Down River Hebrus [fiction]
Sweet Sarah dreamed she sailed alone down River Hebrus where she found sudden love at the center of a liquid mirror that reverberated with the clear perfection of her face—with angelic grace, as done by the master hand of the world’s finest Victorian painter. The morning sun behind her poured her shadow like honey overContinue reading Down River Hebrus [fiction]
Halcyon Days [poetry]
A gentle breeze caresses leaves, swirls past children playing in meadows, and whispers ancient language on a beautiful warm summer eve. The setting sun brings her special kiss: a fiery burst across the hems of satin blue dresses of angel-looking clouds, A mist falls from the east. A woman laughs. She loves. She watches rainContinue reading Halcyon Days [poetry]
3 Lines, Inflamed [poetry]
Fun that flashed like raw flesh where we slept, We awakened the luxuria we kept secret, And boiled our lust away beneath a desert sun.
The Sea On Her Honeymoon [poetry]
The sea on her honeymoon was nearly silent around her A faint skitter of fiddler crabs on the sand connected to a familiar murmur of the night-wind breathing on the palm trees behind her Her lover tide blew wet kisses at her teasing her to swim in its sway and strike up merriment But theContinue reading The Sea On Her Honeymoon [poetry]
Kiss Her [poetry]
Lower your lips to her heart Where your souls touch and flame Where you are ageless in her embrace Protected enough to say you love her Lay with her over moss and leaf Drenched in last night’s rain The shimmering surf at your face Where diamonds and poetry love to weep In this discovery youContinue reading Kiss Her [poetry]
