Photo by Beckett on Pexels.com “watercolors” practice trains you to observe everyday details the exact blue of heaven isn’t blue it’s cobalt, azure, gold and scarlet, rose blooms into violet, silver marbles the horizon before blackest night awash in color Rorschachs blossom my mind’s edges cauliflower errors discover possibility fill each canvas with pauses lightening … Continue reading POEM: “watercolors”
Poems
POEM: “morning routine”
“morning routine”the kettle calls,the song of steamed leaves,sugarcane, and the warm cup in my hands. over toasti view the tea warmer's flame,the hearth and heart of our happy home Next Friday, I’ll also post on my Patreon. If you’d like to read about my progress and plans for this year, you can subscribe to my … Continue reading POEM: “morning routine”
POEM: “paper journeys”
“paper journeys” Long lonely childhood days I lounged beneath the mulberry tree, just Thisbee and me, waiting for Pyramus to take us away, I'd play host to Hermes and Zeus, coast wine-dark seas devour siren song, draw Labyrinthian threads through Minotaur’s home, and soar cornflower sky beside Daedalus before my waxen wings would melt; lofty … Continue reading POEM: “paper journeys”
POEM: “Siren Song”
“Siren Song” you've been warned know where they live across open sea know which sharp craggy rocks they perch upon snaring sailors on their deadly shore cracking the bones of sea-faring men cleaning their flesh from teeth stained by a thousand extinctions, they sing music of the spheres to lure and leech the lives of … Continue reading POEM: “Siren Song”
POEM: “shield”
“shield” during months or years of peace his wife has been polishing--the shield blackened as it hung in the chimney corner respond to the call to fight plain duty admits no hesitation. a hard interruption of their happy lives, the risk of passing from the warm company of men to the chill shades of death. … Continue reading POEM: “shield”
POEM: “The Unsigned Letter”
Photo by George Milton on Pexels.com “The Unsigned Letter” “No need to sign since I give it her myself” the lie you told, hiding your true feelings in the pocket nearest your beating heart she described you perfectly yet you saw no hope, seeing beauty everywhere but in yourself, you lie concealed behind another’s handsome … Continue reading POEM: “The Unsigned Letter”
POEM: “sunflowers”
Photo by fotografierende on Pexels.com “sunflowers” charcoal heads droop, their glowing halos weighted with the heft of so much cheer petals flame this dinner table hearth lightening the heart of this happy home sunshine yellow arms outstretch to embrace or supplicate, cut from their grassy beds, their tendrilled roots removed, replaced, stabilized instead by a … Continue reading POEM: “sunflowers”
POEM: Plague of Dragons
Photo by Craig Adderley on Pexels.com “Plague of Dragons”the world opens up as a new monster looms on the horizon, belching fire, slaughtering victims without thought to gender, creed, or age: the smallest of the small, resistant to her older brother’s charms, no longer spared infectious breath.not content to massacre millions by breath alone, she … Continue reading POEM: Plague of Dragons
POEM: “last year’s revels”
Photo by Charles Parker on Pexels.com “last year’s revels” the toddler rolls from bed, a ballerina princess excited for the special day ahead, anticipates her long-awaited party. strawberry-topped chocolate cake with a grape soda chaser, she’s fueled for festivity: rainbowed streamers wave above a table piled with gifts, sunshine yellow ribbon seals each shining gold … Continue reading POEM: “last year’s revels”
POEM: “spark”
colorful lights in stormy sky over skyscrapers "spark"I hobble out of bed at daybreakan Igor with dreams of being both doctor and creation, waiting for just one spark, juice enough to fuel that night's creation.Excitement looms on this horizonpregnant storm clouds heavy with rain,whipped overhead by hurricane winds,ready to strike, incite the dead to life.Petrichor … Continue reading POEM: “spark”
Cat Russell 