Taking the Long Way Home chronicles her mother’s life and long fall into dementia.
Taking the Long Way Home
Tag: poem
A review of Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet
Where Oceans Meet is a book of flash fiction stories that read like poetry.
Apple of My Eye
A narrative persona poem of young love and human callousness.
The Cleaning Lady
A poem about life on hands and knees
Impressions of Her Landscape Through an Urban Graveyard
To a vilified outcast who ricocheted into self-destruction.
The Ordinary Second
Happens when you least expect it.
The distracted driver blabbing on his phone
cheap vacation
A poem about a cheap vacation.
Woman in Phone Booth
Woman in Phone Booth riffs, like an extended sonnet, on an imagined photograph.
One Final Blaze
In all this red gore, suffering
and servitude oozing across
2020 Night Vision
Tyranny Tastes Terror.
Reactionary Roars Resound
The Heart’s Exhaustion
Stripped of all the colors that create me,
Bare as the bones beneath my skin
The Choice
This poem hopes to combine compression with metaphors that achieve a resonance so as to offer the reader a trip into the indefinite.
Pain Cuts Deep Into Our Lives
There are times when sadness creeps in,
filling the space that love left empty.
Alone Woman
A blatant depiction of loneliness, and isolation enmeshed with a longing desire to belong somewhere; even if only for a little while
a matter of taste
A short meditation on the chemical properties of chocolate.
Intimacy
A poem about everyday love.