Smile

I cannot remember the last time I smiled.
11 March 2015

BIG BROTHER

Billy did not understand why a baby should require so much attention. Everyone, especially momma and papa, centered their focus on this newborn creature.
4 March 2015

DAWN

There was once a town; far away from anywhere else. A small town populated by quiet people, who kept to themselves, content in living the way that their fathers had, and their fathers before.
4 March 2015

Boy-Interrupted

The world was for the boys who wore their hearts in iron covers and for the men who looked at the world from their stage of necessary ambitions.
26 February 2015

The Anarchist

Jail is so familiar that I have ceased to bother with its messy appearance.
19 February 2015

Price of Defiance

The dog arched its back and yawned. The fire from the cooking pit provided reprieve from the biting cold.
19 February 2015

Delirium

Maybe he was only a figment of my imagination. Maybe they were right. The man on my desktop background, the ring on my finger, the names on the bronze plate on the door, the pictures on the wall, none of those were real.
12 February 2015

ON REPEAT

She's looking good in the light
12 February 2015

LIGHT DRIPS

Everyone leaves - With broken bones Because your limbs are sticks And your eyes are stones.
22 January 2015

Hope

Hope is a melody of the unsung The murmur of the uneducated young The silent prayer of those who cannot speak The invisible screams of the weak
22 January 2015

Take me in

I remember you singing me lullabies, I remember playing on your knee. I can see you holding me as I fell, From a wall when I tried to leap.
22 January 2015

Millimetres Apart

Dr. John, the old coaxial cable who had seen both the advent of cable TV and the internet, felt the aluminium lining under his skin crackle.
10 December 2014