cage – Reaching Joy

A Poem

Sometimes, it’s not enough to write a poem. ………………………………………. “Feel it on your back,” she told me from the church cellar. “Know it by name,” he whispered through the garden; he chased the snake but only I could tell. “Let it loose,” she sang, leading the students to the edge, bird cage inContinue reading “A Poem”

Lost

The days that seem lost in the wind when I seem at a loss to say, “I am feeling” because I am a hu-man, wo-man, conquering souls my parents only dreamt of on their honeymoon, California palms catching the moon and my heart waiting, wanting to know what was real outside my one skinned cage,Continue reading “Lost”