Deep Woods Read

It seemed you knew me better than the others. That's why I married you. Then when things got murky for us, when you turned suspicious,...

I ride the liminal spaces, the places in-between. Where water meets land. Where the forest stops, and the sleepy village begins. In the...

How important is the quietude of nature to me? If I cannot have a piece of land to live the rest of my days on, in seclusion from the...

I’m never prepared for departure. I can only make each moment count. When death comes, everything becomes heavy with disbelief and shock....

Our lives on this earth are brief. We experience life with our senses. These precious moments in time are fleeting. We see things that...

Speak to me about silence. Or, let us lie together and experience it. Enveloped by its presence. Utterly succumbing. Exposed. It's...

Do not try to judge her too harshly. Even the normally cheerful flowers nod their heads when it rains.

I know myself intimately. I've spent my lifetime inside the innermost regions of my soul my emotions. I've asked myself all the questions...

Haikus are made by boiling all elements down to broth, then even more… to a thick potent stock. Haiku extracts the essence and necessity...

The scent of crushed garlic rubbed oregano and grated lemon peel. Quiet time spent washing the chicken and patting it dry. Squeezing...

What if fear was personified? What would your conversation be? Would you ask why he holds you so dearly? Are you angry enough to stab...

New tender spruce shoots, brown paper wrapped for Spring deer. Irresistable.

I feel that mental illness bothers people. The people who don't have it. My "breakdowns" interrupt the "happy" they expect to see in me....

Poems are actually deep wishes and thoughts put on paper spoken to the naked ear to burn there... Are they not all coals waiting for...

I smell this rose. it sits on a twig among the statues. This garden still filled with morning mist and some of last evening’s feelings...

The Loner. The Player. The Gambler. And don't forget The Joker! You lie and create a facade of "good guy". You don't give anyone the...

I walk through the halls and corridors of my mind. Since medication, the rooms I find are quiet or locked. Some have a sleeping woman...

You and I are lace window cloth when we are together. We see and know just about everything about each other, except where the fine...