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  • Some Kind of Monster

    We check for monsters. Under the bed, we saw eyes– our eyes reflected. Our monstrousness caught– visible in mirror shard– trapped under our skin. Hold your cross up dear, whisper prayers, “deliver us–” our evil’s within. Cross glows, burns our hands– drop it, spin as it falls down, lands on mirror shards. Seven years’ bad luck,… Read more

  • Curse Breaker | Consolation

    Curse Breaker | Consolation

    Curse Breaker | Consolation “You want to hear a story?” Sarn asked his son. Ran nodded, surprised at the offer. Usually Miren read him stories since Miren could read and Sarn couldn’t. So pleased was Ran by this offer that he didn’t see the trap it represented. He accepted his stuffed bear and snuggled as… Read more

  • Curse Breaker | Consolation

    Curse Breaker | Consolation

    Curse Breaker | Consolation “You want to hear a story?” Sarn asked his son. Ran nodded, surprised at the offer. Usually Miren read him stories since Miren could read and Sarn couldn’t. So pleased was Ran by this offer that he didn’t see the trap it represented. He accepted his stuffed bear and snuggled as… Read more

  • Hanging by a moment

    Hanging by a Moment ~ ~ ~ Hung by a moment– suspended from fleeting clouds– the ground anchors me. ~ ~ ~ My head’s in the clouds. Imagination’s strings lift– I float, par’dise found. ~ ~ ~ Reality pulls– against dreams’ strings, tugs me down– so gravity wins. ~ ~ ~ Hanging by moments– clouds drift… Read more

  • Beloved*: A Collaboration

    Beloved* A collaboration with Carol from WritersDream9.Wordpress.com Carol is a skilled poet who excels at crafting haikus, haibuns and tankas that read like a Japanese master penned them. She also creates short fiction, longer poems and haigas of breath-stealing breadth and beauty. She has set her sights on a form I know and love: the sonnet. Together she and… Read more

  • Listening Objects

    Listening Objects ~ ~ ~ Listening objects fill dreams of the present where words shine and transform. ~ ~ ~ They ease from flower to water to that other thing and are collected as sense. ~ ~ ~ Listening objects scattered on the ground have found sense made is sense lost. ~ ~ ~ So translations shift one… Read more

  • Curse Breaker | Defensive

    Curse Breaker | Defensive

      Curse Breaker | Defensive   “You have to go back,” Miren said in a last ditch effort to drag his brother back to the discussion. Sarn gave his brother a slow nod indicating that he’d heard, not that he agreed with that statement. Though Miren had the right of it as usual. Sarn’s indentured… Read more

  • Curse Breaker | Homecoming

    Curse Breaker | Homecoming

    Curse Breaker | Homecoming “If you go back will you be in trouble?” “I—I don’t know.” Sarn had never gone awol before. He’d been an indentured servant to the Rangers for four years now and no Ranger had ever pulled a stunt like this. Not that he’d listened for any such stories. If a Ranger… Read more

  • Tankas to Nature

    Tankas to Nature* A collaboration with Carol from WritersDream9.Wordpress.com Carol is a skilled poet who excels at crafting haikus, haibuns and tankas that read like a Japanese master penned them. She also creates short fiction, longer poems and haigas of breath-stealing beauty. Stop by her site and let her words sweep you away to simpler life full of… Read more

  • Give Truth a Chance

    Give Truth a Chance*   *A collaboration with Manan, the talented poetess behind Manan Unleashed. Drop by her site and be dazzled by her wit, amazed at the beautiful images she creates and swept away by her heartfelt words. Give Truth a Chance Same old same old, that’s what we hear them say Same old miserable… Read more