I trust Even when you do not believe in yourself Leaf on a breeze The quake cannot harm us if we never land Deep water calm I am not your rock You are my tether The more you roil The more we are brought back to each other I love Even when you do not love yourself #vss365 #calm #quake

I'm told my birth was hard For my mother who had to give me up My father who was trapped away My sister whose place had changed I remember not The nurse sang a #siren song To lure me forth I smiled at her but for no one else I gave all my love that day No other would ever touch my heart #vss365

I am thrilled to be holding the 25th Anniversary issue of the Bellevue Literary Review and am looking forward to diving into its mix of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and art. And of course I'm tickled pink to have one of my #poems included in this illustrious journal. #poetry #writingcommunity

How to create Without feelings Imagined words All faked An exhibition never staged Pretending and pretension Blood I've never bled Fills the only lake On the only #island No tides To wash me away Can't give Never had emotion Ghost of intention Original #sin Even this truth A series of lies #vss365

The cats tore through the room paying no heed Dust bunnies swirled with the force of a #hurricane On shelves goth dolls sang Calling to children that no longer came The dog with a whimper pressed closer to my thigh I assured it all would be fine Once the one who was summoned had arrived #vss365

No matter how often you return Full power into #harbour Drifting aimlessly to shore It always may be the last time The tides carry you back to me The ocean is eternity It’s smell that of both freedom and death They are the same after all Waves of love and anguish In tiny bits eroding me away #vss365

Free range child Not that I had your trust But there were #mountains To rebuff my advances At their base a library Home of lore forgotten What stood upon their rocky caps What was beyond the peaks Dusty pages showed me Not just what I would find But how to cross And still be home by dinner #vss365

Good influence or bad? I'm a little under the weather but trying to get in some time on the clock. They think I should join them and just curl up for the day. Choices choices.

You are both sun and #cloud Stars and eclipse of the moon Rays turning to showers Midnight illumination hidden Wolves in the distance Some days you grip strong Some nights hands dangle at your side Your gaze toward the masked dawn Wil you light the world? Will you shadow your end of times? #vss365

How do you believe in God But not in me I stand before you in flesh that bleeds You offer no #reprieve I share your prayers I wash my face in your church waters #Purify my soul in the Chalice Well You wash your hands of me I will honor you and walk away Mortal until and beyond the day I die #vss365

I am the moon drift Leading the wanderers Who sleep during the day I renounce your bitterness As the sun denies the darkness More than it is due I reckon with lies Dry tears and kiss smiles I am the wolf howling Just before dawn Calling to its children To sleep again #vss365 #reckon #renounce

Quick fix Push the pain forward Kick the deity down the road They don’t like it But it only leaves a slight bruise They asked me once “For what do you hunger? With salvation it might be granted” I said it didn’t matter Whatever I consume today Will just get crapped out tomorrow #vss365 #hunger

Lost my intensity Perhaps at the hardware store Traded in for refuse bags Or maybe it sloughed off In grocery stoor aisles I'm now as bland As frozen foods in my cart No more #passion No songs to sing Did it rain today I'm reflected in a puddle I'm reflected in the grey Of a broken tv screen #vss365

When should children be told They've embarked on a journey That is an adventure But also a trauma A web of intentions A mad man’s vision Sometimes we bleed How young is too young To teach them to love But also tell them There will be stormy times That force them toward hate #vss365 #embark #stormy

Conflict Between my skin and your touch Taste and the sweetness of life Emotions and the will to be Conflict Feeds the root of being Keeps the eyes from seeing Brought you near Drove us on the journey Conflict We nursed it as a baby Gave it our strength Embraced it in all its glory #vss365 #conflict

You move slowly down the aisle Your desk has not changed We watered the plant Leaves spill across dusty papers Work that kept another day How important is it anyway We #marvel that you've returned I think I understand There's the quiet of death at home Nothing that won’t keep another day #vss365

In visions you look happy Dressed up fine For a Pan Am flight to New York City Shiny shoes Dress of pink with blue Chauffeur wearing gloves Black cap close cropped hair In this world you weren't poor A world in which I was never born It brings me joy even if You'll never know my name #vss365 #glove

Wonderful cameo by Peter Gabriel in the latest episode of Silo. His music has been used twice in the show prior. I was already a huge PG fan when this album took the world by storm. I haven't played it in a long time. 1986 was a crazy, pivotal, time in my life. I'm traveling back there now.

I have a painting of you Looks like a #poster You are my rock star A literary giant I admire A great leader who held my hand When the troubles came They say cut the #cord Put down the torch Shatter the mug with your name Who are they anyway I’d rather drift out to sea Then try to begin again #vss365

The crow stole the doll’s comb Put it in the matchbox Tied it shut with Barbie hair A gift for the rabbits Who distracted the child That set the muffin down Crumbs then gathered To feed them all A shrewd ploy Earth kept spinning The circle of life #vss365 #comb #matchbox #shrewd

The wooded path remains Where I once walked Holding your hand No ache in my hip No pain in my heart To the right Behind wild roses Is where we first made love Doesn’t seem so #remote now Someone recently built a fire Our grandchildren’s generation I scatter your ashes Where love once burned #vss365

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I carry regrets A leaf pulled by the river Swirling toward shore Only to be swept back up By the currents of shame The undertow of feelings Too long unsaid Rocks ahead I no longer Remember smooth waters There is no blame Only a destiny written In a distant time By someone elses hand #vss365 #ashamed

Nanci died 5 years ago today at age 68. I was lucky enough to see her live several times. An amazing songwriter and storyteller, master of interpreting others songs, crusader for peace and justice. Her music came into my life when I really I needed it, and I will carry her words in my heart forever.

I cling to a past that never existed Like the imaginary friend Emerging from the closet at 2AM Doing battle with the creature under the bed Created memories of happy times I can share with my friends Use to build a foundation Of a person that can be more Then I've ever managed to be #vss365 #cling

You found me lost Weak Seemingly beyond repair Long un-watered Without seed Without root Your thumb green Heart gold Showed me a #garden Led me slowly there Untrusting I did not want to lie In the bed prepared Rain came Past washed away Time will tell If roots will take But for now They grow #vss365

Who invented the doughnut Was it an act of grace? If I could ask the doughnut Would it tell me ‘I was made this way’ Or when I eat the doughnut hole Separated at birth Do I kill a piece of its soul? An evil act of desecration Or maybe it's spelled donut And I should move on with my day #vss365 #evil

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Move along Move along home Love turned to toil Do you remember The chill we felt Our hands meeting in soil Calm to chaos Feelings would sprout Passions would boil The earth is sterile now Living only to be Each others foil Move along Move along home No urge to toil #vss365 #toil #sprout #urge #chaos

As I begin work on my next book of poetry I want to point you to my publication More Than a Whisper. I'm very proud of this work and the tales it tells. You're sure to see yourself in it & the world we share. You'll get a few snapshots of the dude in the picture too. Link in the comments. #poetry