Fluency Found
As I rub the smokey colors from my eyes,
Watch the minutes, so mellifluous.
Shards of penitence glint in the rain,
The petrichor almost masking the sting of sibilance in your string of words.
Too small, too small to remember the incendiary strife.
Too old to abandon the blaze.
White mist morning contrasting with the fiery…read more

Dearest,
Last year I clutched close to every piece of home,
Sorting through the numbness with trembling hands.
But the new year’s morning is bathed in apricity.
Aliferous and untainted.
So I let myself slip under the bright simple day.
The tempting beauty of just being.
Thoughtful footsteps on holy ground:
A tradition long overdue.
The f…read more