Thought Tinker

The headaches come and she weeps alone; afraid or is it ashamed to let anyone know the hurt inside, the eye-popping terror of a heart in chains, distress kept private in a world that yearns for performance art; I myself get them rarely, though I am familiar with pain,...

Progress

Money’s not love and it isn’t respect, it sure isn’t friendship, it doesn’t buy that; So retreat if you must in a world overmuch, when content and timbre appear out of touch; Regroup and resist, the temptation is grand, hold onto your vision all else out of...

Love or Something Like It

I could spend the rest of my life ruminating: this is why I do not create bonds easily, trust takes years, betrayal ever ready to sharpen its fangs on a tender heart; I could say it’s because you abandoned me and failed to protect us Mother, and it would be true, in...

Postponing Joy

Remember Wimpy from Popeye cartoons? I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today! That guy knew what he wanted and couldn’t wait to enjoy it, although I’m not entirely sure about the indebting part, but I digress … Some truths are hard to...

Refract

How easy it is to reveal our best in writing; reflective, unlike life which requires reflexive, interactive, unpredictable; like it or not the mirror is held up and there we are refracted, simply human, the same myriad collection of jukebox tunes flipped out and...