Aunt Jay

Aunt Jay

If starlight was human, it’d walk through the fray, and stand there quite clearly, as my own aunt jay.   Most generous minded, and sweeter than May, her laugh like a bluebell, I loved my aunt jay.   In moments of quiet, by my side she’d stay, a...
Smashing Pomegranates

Smashing Pomegranates

Smashing Pomegranates   life is like a betting game; the cards you play are yours to blame. cut them high, and you’re in luck spin them low, your hand is stuck a dance of fate and false control the end is nigh, the joker’s null the stakes are high,...
For Ophelia

For Ophelia

There once was a maiden  Unhindered and pure  A willow that danced  With an angel’s allure   Yet for all of her beauty  And fairness and light  Ophelia wandered  The darkest of nights    She swam with a madman Through current and dune Til’ one day, her...
Just the Very Same

Just the Very Same

A warm, evening wind, kisses my tired, rosy face I exhale, at once content and overcome with remembrance of the sun, who once loved me, kissed me, just the very same   the page beneath my lonely hand flutters, alive with possibility, and Orion, the other lover,...