I am very good at coping, even when I’m not. (I just pretend that I’m still going, even when I’ve stopped.)

the woman shrieked  and fell headlong  into her pillow, dispossessed  by her own mind  in a blunted shard of a moment that no one witnessed  as she… Read more “the shriek”

Someone once asked me why I was always alone. I replied, ‘I only fall in love with ideas, not people.’

Hope can be found and restored even after many years of darkness. Nature is good for the soul. Listen to birdsong – we take it for granted.… Read more “Some Lessons life has taught me”

I live with defiance clinging like a drop on a spider’s silken web one clouded speck of a soul bound and braced along the filament in damp pearl-strung… Read more “Gossamer drop”

   

on the floor of my mind I sit weightlessly                     (weightlessly)  rocking slowly, back and forth casting my silver… Read more “fishing for thoughts”