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Sixty plus years ago and the pall that covers us today takes me there as if I'd never escaped the dark secrets are darker the lies run deeper and the consequences are greater 'those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them' and here we are watching helpless as we drown in the muddy waters of...

The day then dawned and I then drove having dropped them off I hid from the Sun on my way back and there’s silence then there’s boredom then there’s an urge to pull, to push, to sway to dissolve this solid heart in the calming, frothing waves so I write

I remember your perfume and how its fragrance and your essence made me giddy, like fine champagne from a crystal flute, sparkling, how they made me act the fool and not care as long as I could see you, touch you, inhale you, feel you open yourself to me, but time passed, the chill crept in, and you and my love are shells of themselves since you...

It's funny how different things can seem when you stand and look from somewhere else. Like how white ice turns to black, And that the earth is round, not flat. When I gaze up at the sky half way across the world, it sparkles But to you it's only mid-day. It's funny how our perception of time changes depending on feelings; I'd fly across the...

The old lane cutting through the woods to the end of the road was a midnight high school highway, kids following the call of youth under shadows thrown down by conspiring elms and oaks, limbs seemingly beckoning to a place of their dreams, the boys next day smiling and bragging, thinking they were now men, the girls hoping they weren’t carrying...

Shackles cast of steel Held by ball and chain Heaving with my shame A pretense of a shield Stench of failure, unclean Decay chanting its creed Encased, the coffin is sealed I claw and try to scream To demons I forcibly kneel Fraying and tearing at seams Body bitter and maimed “Spare yourself and yield” “No!” Shouts a soul...

Stubborn refusal to talk to me Means I’ll never understand, Why every step I take To close the gap Is another step she takes away Autism grates on every nerve A pain no one deserves But when does refusal to heal Stop being the fault of illness, When does the swearing and threats Become a crime, And not just disease, 2025… another year, The more...