What Crosses My Mind

  • Finding Solitude

    When do I recognize I’ve had enough after years of never really knowing how to decide, what makes it worthwhile, this it, this piece of our lives, this need to demonstrate always while this hollow reality aches inside. ~ When only the quaking fear of my psyche takes over anything else, whether it matters or…

  • Traveler Bags

    Is this sacred wisdom we carry its mystery a naked history remains impossible along the road. Step aside and watch time steady wheels weighed down in two ton reminder. The bags become a target ready to be pummeled first sighted a driver today might aim tomorrow disregard. Hide in the fields of shame distant traveler…

  • First Moments

    When doubt begins to wonder and all the souls that gather around suddenly want to splinter off, an edgy sort of raw scrape upon our own fragile sanity. ~ We might think we know, protest the moment, rather respond with a reaction that only suggests we are as fucked up as we believe ourselves. ~…

  • When A Feeling

    If sometimes I cannot complete a sentence it doesn’t mean I won’t understand if you are hurting if your state of mind isn’t feeling wise, instead driven down by whatever the wave of a moment, a passing fancy, a time when all of our lives become wrapped into that one moment, all others depart and…

  • Quiet Roads

    The crunch of gravel kicking up dust from a distance looks like Urgency some need to get away keeps driving me further. Wanting to know yet feeling the distance, her just out of reach Philosophy. Just one more chance the embodiment of truth may lay only ahead never to be realized yet likely it is…

  • Simple Thrills

    A fire in winter catching ice in arms snowbound landscapes will tell a story. Eyes we might wish to search further inside. Simple stories.

  • Years Ago

    We stood upon each other’s doorstep Didn’t know why Felt we should The why, a how come, any reason We searched each other’s to find That answer why. ~ Now is today Our august hours Yet still doorsteps exist We choose to wonder Just shy of asking why I want to step over And you…

  • We May a Soft Dance

    Oh as the melody would our lives in the balance so envious could I be, she, him, her as well, all of us together internally a maze of authenticity for the stars align, while magic is a mystery imagine this is our legacy to be two people, three, maybe more who all believe the other,…

  • Certain Days of the Year

    I’ll wake up tomorrow morning and thirty two years will have gone by in a flash. I’ll try to remember different events that occurred on this day and they will be one distant fog. Oh, there will be the dinners, maybe a movie, occasionally a live show, maybe a concert wrapped around the date of…

  • This Peace in Our Lives

    We do share an anxiety Achy legs Grab a thermometer Now a strange earache out of Nowhere really normal anywhere. We live in high risk Hyperventilating our every move. And then we try to calm Try to recall the common cold … Well not as much tonight as I have let This certain earache Rule…