Posts Taggedpoem

returning to a place of post-apocalypse calm

in Posts on December 27, 2024 December 27, 2024

i am now returning—a phrase, a wound, a hinge on a doorhalf-hanging, rusted on promisesnever meant to keep. what is “now”but the afterbirth of once,slick with the memory of chaosand the shimmer of thingsalmost touched?…

Orphans

in Posts on September 21, 2024 September 20, 2024

I’ve been going through some of my old poems and converting to flash fiction. Here is the original poem: We had faith in the soothsayer’s poison.We knew how to sacrifice our sons and daughtersto secure…

no glory

in Posts on July 2, 2020 July 2, 2020

so i lay thereplaying with splintersin the late afternoon the angels of paradise,hidden in the mysteryof my days leaningon worn-out wings, sang to me sticks lie broken,dead leaves gather dust,i am homesick herein the ashes…