Poetry

  • Minister of Silence

    Life’s so pale these days, the minister of silence is singing me to sleep. There was a day when  he wheeled us down the roads like a god. Why is he singing me to sleep now with words I cannot hear, quietly humming until I yawn and disappear. I am not the one who’s dead, Read more

  • I used to be a burglar but I quit, quit breaking into houses I’d been invited to by men with promises like keys around their necks. Knocking on your door one night a computer came to answer, it said you were away and refused to let me in. The locks had been changed and my Read more

  • Empty Eyes

    My eyes are empty now. I’m looking for someone who will tell me the truths are lies. Truth leaves me alone and shivering outside the door, where I am eyed by the sad and frigid moon. (I am so eager to be deceived, I lie even to myself, ignoring the inner rhythms) I am daughter Read more

  • Everything Changed

    Everything started changing  when they realized, reincarnation was not quite what they had believed. Instead, dying was more like  pouring into one  large universal  pond everyone  flowed back from  again,  regardless of how they had behaved. Not moved by  how good or bad a  self they had been,  not influenced by how  many good or Read more