Lovable – a short story

Lovable – a short story

I heard the laugh, the laugh of my broken heart: sweet, giddy, princess-like and eminently endearing.                  I wanted to walk over to her, take her into my arms and breathe in her baby smell, feel the endorphins calming my guilty pain, the black aching mass...
Souls (Души)

Souls (Души)

I missed you this time around again, though you are here all along, behind, inside, deep inside; buried where I found you. Walk away.  Walk away. Next time will be better. Я скучал по тебе на этот раз снова,   хотя ты здесь все время,   сзади, внутри, глубоко внутри;...
Carpenter’s Vision

Carpenter’s Vision

Invaluable; unworthy. Disappointed; maladroit. Weak, magnificent, Ponderously incalculable. … Stupefied; no wonder He wept.
Obsessed

Obsessed

My heart will wander through the clouds. It does become enrapt. And I, obsessed, with string in hand envision all that sense has lacked while shallow winds whisk my corporeal kite away, away, and out of sight.
Fall Foliage – a sonnet

Fall Foliage – a sonnet

September heaves her last hot heartfelt breath; My hollow chest relinquishes your hold, As reddening leaves in readiness for death, Portend the coming emptiness of cold. Without your gentle wisdom all seems lost; Like leaves of gold your essence falls to dust....