Abuse

Written from a woman's perspective...

Slap a padlock on my mind

If you can only but...

Hands were made to close in order to grasp and hold.....not to make fists.

Introduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously...

Curled up tight
A corner of the room
The only safety
A locked door
A pleading.....

I trusted you.
​​​​​​With my heart and soul, I trusted you.
at first with tender gentleness...

Poet of Perkiomen Valley
discovered aforementioned titled poem
about thirty months ago he...

A picky eater, through and through
Must I force your jaws to chew
Clean the plate with your...

A side piece.
It’s what I’ll always be.
The love for myself continues to decrease.
...

As my eyes roll into the back of my head
The flaws of my veins keep spreading
Until my mind...

Triggered to skyhigh elevated state
when I received communiqué
courtesy management warden...

We sit in defining scilence across the dining table

He doesn't bare to look me in the eye while I...

That smoke cloud
It seems to make its way back round
And I'm blowing loud so it engulfs the...

Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice...

Don't be fooled by the person who identified someone,
or rather who over-praised when all was said...

The latter classified as a voivode
(prince) of Wallachia
(part of modern Romania).
...

Antiestablishmentarian inherent malevolent violence
wracks human species, a most brutish and nasty...

The word survivor still feels clunky on my tongue but I’ve learned the truth is rarely sweet.

For...