Admonishments
...If I could remember the admonishments
of the gods,
then stalkings
by the fabulous four,
pestilence, drought, flood, and famine,
not to mention the universal decimator war,
would reduce me to a...
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Categories:
stalkings, addiction, allegory, angst,
Form: Blank verse
I Yield
...Come winter, I yield
becoming a willing hostage without appeal;
a prisoner to the solitary walls of the house,
closed, secured behind windows, doors, a hibernating mouse.
Writhing images co...
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Categories:
stalkings, family, holiday, memory, winter,
Form: Quatrain
Even His Reflection
...What keeps a man tied up to a woman
Who’s distant and leads her own life?
She speaks a tongue from a group of Roman
And that woman is his “dear” wife.
They stopped talking and even making love....
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Categories:
stalkings, marriage,
Form: Lyric