Twinflower

The desert surrounds me, Stretching to every horizon, Cracked and dry with age, Flat and featureless But for scattered, fibrous plants Which with rare tenacity Cling to the rugged earth. ...

There are ghosts in this house They don’t lurk in the dust beneath my bed Or between the musty closet’s clothes They don’t need dark Cellars or attics Only my ...

Listen, Shell is singing A song of wind and sea: Breakers crash And raucous birds Dive and skim the waves. A harsh salty breeze Whips white across the water And ...

You have given me in abundance A childhood’s worth of broken promises My small hands stored them away Inside a diary garden I secretly tended Hoping that someday, your promises ...

Autumn Sweet summer’s breath fades, Green life pierced through with autumn’s blade; Time has weakened season-old leaves, And the wind with careless ease, Plucks them from the yellowed trees. But ...

Away she steals beneath the midnight sky, An eager gleam shining in her green eyes, And escapes the memories left behind; The night air soothes her face and clears her ...

Dark eyes beneath black hair match The midnight forever on your face. The sorrowed, solemn beauty of heartbreak Rarely broken by a sunlit smile. The others watch you, Eager admiration ...

I toiled late into the night, With needle and golden thread I worked, trying to sew Your heart together again. My sore fingers are red now, With your blood or ...

I carry you in my bones, Drag you around in my chest; You are an unwanted stone Buried deep into my flesh. Where are you when I hear Your voice, ...

Lonely dog, Black against the snow-stained ground, Head swings back and forth, Searching. Hungry dog, Empty-bellied, with calloused paws And cold joints Trembling. Old dog, Sight’s been gone and hea