Category: Friends & Family
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Waiting for October
I do not like writing about where I am, in this office with light gray walls that I call middle ground. Beside me sits a typewriter, covered with dust collecting since 1974 and a computer outdated in 1998 no one knows how to use. I do not like writing about a place where Joe has…
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Unraveling
On our first date, when your face scored target on my eyes, you told me it was the best date you’d ever had because we fell asleep on each other on the couch and didn’t wake until daylight. That was two years ago, and now you have porcupine daggers in your eyes when you look…
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It was a curvy road finding you
But when our eyes touched joined in our new world I could do nothing but stare and wonder what it would take to know you to hold you and then we said hello Cedar Mountain was ours but it couldn’t keep us You belonged to the shore but my heart was yours You were in…
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Rekindle the wrong
The sun may rise silently above the sheltered lake but it won’t go unnoticed by those who will create darkest lies that move soundlessly away from those who hide their faces in the morning’s harsh dawn. Today I saw a demon and I knew that you were mine but I was tired and weary not suitable to…
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Where no one has
The parking lot was empty when you pulled your sleek black Bonneville underneath a dirty street lamp that wasn’t on even though the sky was metallic gray with stabs of silver lightening. It was your dad’s car, handed down to you; you handed down to me unscented Jergens lotion you told me to put on…