nestled on a blanket flip flops tossed aside kiddies about giggling with ice cream smiles the sky explodes in hues of red white and blue my eyes though fixed on the purple of my dress dancing on you
Monthly Archives: January 2020
sweet surrender
flowers and butterflies …and other things that sate my soul this image was taken in the summer of 2018 along the gardens of Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello. Within the gardens many different varieties of flowers native from different parts of the country thrive. Many, like this flower, the cockscomb, captivated my senses with its uniqueContinue reading “sweet surrender”
organ
that dime store organ little girl fingers learnt to play oh how it blew and blew the wolf away
tokens
wearing my grandmother’s engagement ring today feeling her love soak my veins hearing her heart song come back to me
kryptonite
when i listen to you, really listen it’s as if i’m cupping the ancient sea where the rush of calamity and peace call home yet they know they know their boundaries where trepidation meets fortitude and shake hands and you, all the while with your torn sail continue your odyssey
sheltered
the intimacy of the rain stowing my tears all these years now tiny little dears tapping, rapping upon my umbrella