Mindset I’m done with making peace: with seeing rainbows in the oily scum of dish water with the scented softness of tumble dryer fluff in the symmetry of a spreadsheet in the swooping freedom city canyon seagulls viewed from a fifth floor office Instead: I want the uneven paths and wind blasted […]
Mosaic me – 100 words
Skins – 100 words
Skins I wore a wetsuit into the lake sun glinted, elbowing through youthful foliage, neoprene absorbed the blows of water’s rising assault I was braced, mustered: leaving fear on the shore with my dry robe and car keys where it watched me rising proud from wind-fractured water I sought that tidal inhalation, […]
Don’t call me light red – 100 words
Don’t call me light red Passionate pink is sexy – Valentine’s hearts and ribbons Bubblegum, barbie, cotton candy, Squashums Pink for a girl Pink when the inside shows outside – the lips, the mouth, the eyes Watermelon, coral, flamingo Flamenco Pink is suggestive, makes them wink In the pink: never felt better White women’s pink […]
March – 100 words
March A yellow month daffodils, dandelion, gorse and the eyes of new-born daisies little lambkins, blossom gutters and premature chocolate eggs holly and Rudolph slip over the horizon behind and it’s spring forward into long shadows and the smell of burning meat in next door’s garden the buzz of distant mowers but we aren’t there […]