a tube of space-time
a harnessed worm-hole
to look back into your past
staring down the throat
all is to be revealed
everything
pieced together
for all eyes to see
as if it were today,
i see you steal that piece of candy from the five & dime store
Monthly Archives: February 2015
crow’s feet
Exhibited at the 32nd Annual Juried Photography Exhibit,
Suffolk Art Gallery from 03-05-16 to 04-15-16.
Published on the Virginian-Pilot’s Local News Section
(03-08-15). It is number three of four in the slideshow
included with Mary Reid Barrow’s
“Colorful Birds Visit From the North When Food is Scarce.”
sleeping in trees
lucy lived in the trees
but sometimes
she climbed down
to fall forward
with each step
and to catch herself
with each step
the climber’s heart offering
“But if it had to perish twice,” Robert Frost
base camp
and mere bodies
camaraderie
eternal youth
of reach
life & death
will kiss the face
hard to hold
your granite cold
finger ledge
your crystalline
thoughts
your subterranean
face – rising
eight legged
exoskeleton drift
across
fear-of-falling
finger-legs
reach and hold
your chipped face
smear
the expansive sky
rising above
valley below
the bird’s eye view
set upon
a knife’s edge
cracked hearts
covered in chalk
and tape
bleeding boxes
sacrificed
on the stone-face
monolith