Humanity

It was my first year
teaching in NYC
in 1999.

In the middle of the year,
a...

The curtain lifted too soon
Revealing infancy's first breath
And bewilderment's swoon...

I cry today when I was alone
because I was feeling sad
I wanted to be happy, I really...

EVE


Dearest eve I think you were framed
Femininity was your slayer
...

Bleak hope of kind words,
left behind; where the shadow's lurk.
Sleek slope of vehement words...

I look up and what do I see,
Our eyes meet or were you looking at me

Feel the connection we...

Nelson Mandela

From some distance and nearby
resembling Obama's attitude of speech...

The will to create and the wish to destroy, it is time you acknowledge, has never been yours to own,...

Inspired by Leah Cabael Yodico’s beautiful poem “The Window”

Now “The Windows Of The World”...

(For when I worked in funeral service, my longest employment.)

There were of course the roses,...

There was once a promise-

now I am the dust on my hands
from the earth I have fallen upon...

Delve into green nothingness,
End up in cavernous space,
Drown in an eternal pool of pity,...

Young minded brains like sponges
Soaking up all the dirty knownlege
So impressible
...

Would you stop Time? Do you ever feel like if everything were to stop right now, you would be okay? Like if...

ity-- in the human
a parenthetical casualty
often needs reminding
when it should be...

Hopelessly treading the quicksand of thought,

Get out of the midst of the mist if I get the gist...

It is not evil bringing an apocalypse
apathy of mankind the undoing
We watch, we read
...