It's Still Life

I Want … a poem that feeds itself,and knows how to feed me,that sings a forest’s song,or is the green fray of spring, a poem that …follows a seed’s path through air,that’s a warm, dark placewhere I can hear my thoughts,that knows why I care, a poem that …repeats a memory like a melody,that breaks…

A Haibun Poem that was Supposed to be about a Pneumatic Drill … There’s a village whose name I can never pronounce correctly, so obviously I can’t spell it correctly either, where I stayed for a week and a few days in the Colombian Andes, and I’d wake up early in the morning, long before…

Advice is … my mother telling meto eat an apple a day.so I planted three apple trees. my father telling meto let the wind blow through me.so it does. PAD (Poem-a-Day Challenge) Day21 with Prompt: “Advice”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images…

A Metaphor for … Grief.It’s cliffs crumbling down.Grief,holding its breath andhiding beneath open sky. It’s deepcalling to deep, and shelays down infinitiy’s griefupon winter’s flame,and it leaps to burn. Written for PAD (poem-a-day challenge) Day 20: a metaphor poem. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or…

Be Prepared … There’s a hurricane in that house.Two sisters hunkered down,they know the slippery slope,the long tail of these storms. Words gone, wounds reappearing. Their mother thinks she canwalk on water, like Jesus –she goes to church on Sundays,sometimes Tuesdays, too, and while one sister watches sunrises,the other says she’ll conjureloaves of bread. Like…

Chance … is drawing a bow across strings and hitting the right note or finding someone that makes you remember that you are flesh and fire Written for PAD (Poem-a-DayChallenge) Day 18 “Chance”. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright and not…