summer is...

ice cream melting,
dripping on my hand,
making it sticky;

pollen sticking to bumblebees,
as they buzz away
from a dandelion;

rain buzzing down
from the heavens
on a late afternoon;

staying out too late
in the hot sunshine,
skin burning too;

burning searing heat,
so humid and damp,
it feels 10 degrees hotter;

damp sweat as it
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i am sitting in front of a sleek black computer, listening to the latest song that has come up on my "free" ad-plentiful internet radio. there's a slight chill in the air, a breeze from the north. next to the computer is a bookcase of worn yellow phone books whose pages have been wrinkled too thin and beyond that there is a door to a file cabinet ( Read more... )

it's raining outside and i can see the lightning flash through my closed curtains and i can feel the thunder roar and shake the ground. the computer monitor shakes each time the thunder cracks. i'm next to the window now, looking out in the pitch darkness. i can't see the rain falling, but i feel it and i taste it. i imagine the ripples it creates ( Read more... )

"Mommy, tell me the story again," the little blonde girl, lying in her mother's lap, pleaded ( Read more... )

drunken lies ( Read more... )

It was the sun rising, talking to the stars--the faded blue on the edge of the horizon. It was the sea fading into the sky, the crispness of the water rousing me awake. It was the soft sand crumbling beneath my naked feet, as I drifted in the wind, slowly sauntered to the coast. It was the whisper of the ocean's wind that I heard your voice in, ( Read more... )

tears may fall on my cheek,
but i do not cry for you;
do not give yourself the
preconception that you can
affect me so greatly.

i may have my downfalls,
my breakdowns, here and there,
but you do not break through me;
you do not permeate the
steel wall to my heart.

you are nothing to me.

Lying flat on the blue mat, staring up at the world, in her black leotard, she flashbacks through her routine. 8...10...12 steps on the balls of her feet, two feet together as they slam on the springboard, two feet flying through the air. One brain questions herself mid-air, and crashing down she comes, ramming into the horse, bouncing back and ( Read more... )

wheels turning
tires spinning
round and round.

careless movements,
charged with gas--
pump the accelerator.

speeding down
the midnight highway
at 90 mph,

screaming, singing
out loud to the radio,
laughing like there's no tomorrow.

turn the wheels
spin the tires
round and roundone wrong turn ( Read more... )

blinkblinkblink
close my eyes to
deafening darkness

the ravage--
open my eyes
shutcloseagain
savage beast,
you blind me.

screamscreamscream
help me please
turningturning

let go,
let go,
LET GO!

over and over again,
it hurts. it hurts. it hurts.