Family

I have arrived alone
to this afternoon
there are hardly any flowers
the daylight is...

Translucent potatoes in guilded soil
Kitchen knife soaked in olive oil
Seasoned fillet benath...

I am Elevated
at least this
is what my
senses say

I am between
parallel...

You never message. I always insinuate the conversation just to get manipulated into giving affection....

I get it. You think you're God.
Oh no? Well that's how you act.

Don't try to twist this on...

It hits you deep sometimes,
When you are all alone,
Reflections of a past,
When you...

From the long days of a CARER, tired mind, aching feet but still loving what they do,
Always busy,...

I brushed the sky
bruising my ego
in the process
sacred communion
through red...

(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)
regarding following lines courtesy the missus,
who...

He was my papaw and he was my father's dad.
When he died in 1994, it was both tragic and sad....

I promised myself that you’d never have the life I did
You’d never experience the things I did as a...

on her face
there used to be a sunrise
now, she hardly ever smiles
there are no kisses...

I smile and
listen carefully
to everything she says
every story
word by word...

her belly has wrinkles
she worries I notice that
she has something like a ditch
across...

it is simple
in our constant moving forward
we make our way as we go
we build bridges...