What Crosses My Mind

  • An Unconditional Prelude

    We stood and watched, heard about a couple of planes ascending into the atmosphere above and beyond a toxic city.   We wondered aloud, thought oh my, such a tragedy, imagined only a particular moment, far beyond our backyard, we don’t even need a fence, so convenient, so far away.   We began to stare…

  • Please Scream Rather Than Leave A Note – Suicide In Our Lives

    The other day, I read a NYT article that indicated suicide rates are rising at an alarming rate since 1999. The same day CNN listed a similar statistic at 25% since 1999. This was the day after Kate Spade had taken her life. I thought it a natural followup of a tragic event. This morning…

  • Finding Voice

    I walked outside and screamed at the bottom of my driveway, only because I knew no one would notice, well, they did, and their doors shut, I stood in my neighborhood and felt completely alone.   The manicured lawns, similarly styled rose gardens, the roof repair and invisible fences, street signs that suggested we all…

  • In Depression’s Grip

    I wouldn’t say imagination, instead, a spiral of twisting metal, cracked concrete well below, the shavings of slivers and dust where the legs go. A night sky that looms in sunlight, clouded thinking, to the degree of a natural flight, over here, this time, that afternoon, one year in my life. I sometimes want to…

  • Losing Sight

    Motion a cylindric mechanism, always feeding upon a circular atmosphere constant, needy response to the world around no matter time of day, an attitude Complete we are so fluid though running through miles of tension in search of an anchor to compensate I we want to know a weighted yes to the dreams we have Believe.…

  • Hummingbirds Help

    Seek a quiet moment … ~ Between the avalanche of emotion That buries the crisis of reality ~ A figure appears Hidden within the numbers Dialogues that drift into the open air Of dreary daylight Everyone listens Synchronized conversation In hopes that our own world Might be less restrained ~ Believe in your moment ……