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  • The Red Thread Unraveled

    The Red Thread Unraveled

    Unravel I pulled the red thread, watched it unravel. I sought connections as stitches parted. I found none as thread pooled on cold gravel. Row by row came undone. Brokenhearted, I grabbed a spool and wound the thread back up. The pattern’s unraveled; the picture’s gone. What meaning I meant to find is bound up in the… Read more

  • Odd Trio, Cat’s Paw, Cat’s Vision and Cat’s Prophesy – A Four Sonnet Cycle

    Odd Trio, Cat’s Paw, Cat’s Vision and Cat’s Prophesy – A Four Sonnet Cycle

    An Odd Trio An odd trio they made, a cat, a bowl of soup, a beach towel, thought Moon Runner. Maybe that was the norm on this atoll. This scrap of rocky beach was no stunner. All volcanic glass that cut at his feet, White-caps slamming aground with enough force to shatter a boat if he’d had one… Read more

  • Ornate – Lifestyles of the Rich and Extravagant

    Ornate – Lifestyles of the Rich and Extravagant

    Ornate We swam laps in our ornate pool, borrowed columns, statues from Greco-Roman rule, on a mountain we built our palace bold, mixing ancient and modern with our tools. Tiled and lit our courtyard crowned the mountain, statues placed to make it look more crowded. Still we’re lonesome like the carven fountains. For company there’s only the sky… Read more

  • Dear Star SN 2014 – Assignment #8

    Dear Star SN 2014 – Assignment #8

    Dear Star SN 2014, Thanks, you’re the closest star to go nova. ‘Cigar Galaxy’ or M82*, where you dwelt, twelve million light years ova’ in neighbor Ursa Major, when you blew. A prof caught you in the act**; the world watched, this astrophysicist got sacked cause you died in the birthplace of stars, and you botched my career. You Type Ia… Read more

  • Secret Admirer – A Daily Post Sonnet

    Secret Admirer – A Daily Post Sonnet

    Secret Admirer She fingered the course cloth of his green cloak. Her savior–a man with green eyes that burned with magical fire. Course fabric she strokes, feeling arms carrying her, unconcerned by the enemies still fighting. Three shafts bloomed in her attacker’s neck, her savior’s work, before he’d rescued her. Danger still loomed as he ran… Read more

  • Photo-Fiction Challenge #5 – Evasion

    Evasion She sat reading and fading where she sat. First her feet slipped into nothing, a toe at a time. Her legs went next, but she sat still and continued reading even though her body shifted out of time part by part. Her torso next phased out following her legs. Not some invisibility trick or try… Read more

  • Photo-Fiction #11 – Blood and Secrets

    Mistress A secret only told by bloody lips. A secret held in by a blood-tipped touch of a finger pressed to pursed ruby lips. Not a hint of the secrets in her clutch. Not in those dark amused eyes that promise, from the black and white tile floor where she lies, that hugging her secret close gives… Read more

  • Supernova – Writing 101 #7

    Supernova – Writing 101 #7

    Supernova Explosion that outshines a galaxy, radiating energy like a sun, expelling its material to be swept up in a shock wave, it’s remnant done. Its light fading, streaking across space time to strike the telescope trained on that star, pierce the eye pressed to the lens that one time. Re-ignition of fusion killed that star long ago, while… Read more

  • Guilty Pleasures

    Guilty Pleasures Not dark chocolate, peanut butter or anything edible; not silk or chrome or anything tangible; no gold ore, silver medallions or anything bone; no banal evening guiltily indulged in and gone; no apology whispered, nor promise betrayed; no treasure divulged, nor business deal skillfully maneuvered; no bold deity that needs appeasing, nor ancient text whose sight invites thieving–… Read more

  • Veterans

    Veterans Beneath the poppies they lie, our fallen protectors, who gave their lives to stop foes from near and far from taking God-given rights to life and liberty. In the throes of battle they never failed to take down the enemy, ’till snicker-snack, their match met, one unlucky sword thrust took them down. Up they got to… Read more