How do I become a blue damselfly? Hopping from purple clover To purple clover, Quietly stalked by little ones With sweaty hair and bright skin, Just out of reach of the shadow Of their fingertips Blackened from digging for worms Underneath the old cypress tree By the seawall. I’d flutter onto honeysuckles With just one… Continue reading Blue Damselfly
Month: August 2023
High Country Haunting
Spirits stalk me in my sleep with count-down timings and pillowed double meanings They haunt me down the hallways and wait up the stairways. They follow me from swamps to mountaintops. Entities slither through aspen trees keeping watchful eyes. They comb through cypress moss… like caterpillars dropping on my head, like black widow spiders crawling… Continue reading High Country Haunting
Swamps to Mountains 