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  • 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

  • Curse Breaker | Pursued

    Curse Breaker | Pursued

    Curse Breaker | Pursued Vaulting from boulder to boulder, he crossed the white-capped river mere feet from the falls themselves. On the far shore, he broke into a run and hit the maze the rich had dubbed the Lower Quarters. Though squalor, even one with such a genteel moniker, was still rankest poverty. Reeking of urine,… Read more

  • Elemental Senryu: Fire

    Elemental Senryu: Fire

    Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Fire Purifies loved gold, strongest metals bend, mold licks life new or old. Sparks… Read more

  • Stars Dance – A Kyrielle Sonnet

    Stars Dance – a Kyrielle Sonnet Stars dance to music of the spheres within dark energy’s ballroom swaying through dark matter that’s there. Gravity’s pull makes them dance. In a vacuum their music sounds mathematical, oh what gloom– scientific, describes the boom. Gravity’s pull makes them dance. Colliding stars send shock waves out shaking the the long… Read more

  • Curse Breaker | Intercepted

    Curse Breaker | Intercepted

    Curse Breaker | Intercepted “Easy,” said the newcomer, “It’s just Green Eyes.” Sarn risked a glance at the man standing at his elbow. Grime combined with the green glow of Sarn’s eyes made it impossible to tell what color the man’s garments were or if the fellow was sporting gang colors. The gap-toothed fellow waited… Read more