Xanadu
 

oh child, with her big blue eyes, cradling the whole ocean. watch her swim in dark navy, float on her back, watch her pudgy blue belly...

Whole. Whole and perfectly uniform. Void of any jagged edges, any sharpened corners. The fallacy of order. Never becoming more than the...

i hesitantly proceed towards the exhausted, cold fence which houses what is left of my mother the jagged rocks beneath my feet taunt me...

The glistening shore dances through the dead of night, endlessly re-acquainting the garland of seashells. They poke, pry, prick, and...

When silence is painful, we speak to fill it. We might speak too much, we might wish we didn’t. To ignore or submerge, our thoughts,...

Sunday nights nights of solitude. The nights before waking up too soon. Routinely getting no rest; nightglows glowing through the window....

Breathe in. Breathe out. Rooting. Rumbling. Roaring. Cheers erupt from the crowd, hundreds on their feet mouths gaping hands clasping...

When I look at you how could I ignore your baby blues, past and future cut me loose falling into swimming pools. Sticky surrender I could...

Stars dissolve soundlessly, dark ink draining til plum-tinged sky is still. Slip under silk sheets warm tea in one palm. Sweet cinnamon...

Your vines wrapped slowly. I never heard them. I still do not perceive that pressure. My twisted, tangled roots did not always choke, nor...