The Writer’s Green Room

Into the misty mountains the voyage seems to be everything I was expecting. Before my departure I was warned. I was told without a tongue-held that I would not be conversant with this journey…

Shadow that I always keep with me.
Warmth which to thaw 
The ice of my heart
And the bright through the blinders
To wake me

The boy in the helium and aluminum foil sky.

A frigid gash of sunlight cut the room from side to side
For him she saw what lay behind, what she was yet to find
He drew the promised card for her and threw it through the air
So high …

Rainwater ran along the asphalt turf of Seventy-Second and Amsterdam. He answered when I called, exactly at midnight. I knew precisely where he was standing: crouched over the phone, fro…

Like the times of all I now have come to the part of my journey of end. Fin
She may have been the bearer of bad news but I will be the bearer of strong continuation.
She may not crave the…

He comes someone you should remember, once again forced to socialise with someone I have spent years avoiding.

Deidre, how have you been? I smile like I mean it.

_Clayton, surprise s…

The pace of my walk was quicker than my minds ability to figure who she was. I dashed past her oblivious that I once knew her. My mind eventually caught up and it struck me instantly. This woul…

Soon the world will be mine
Said the hamster to the cream
Coloured cat. A mouthful later
And the dream was little more than that.

How many years now has it been
Your prime and every concern
My unsettled hoofs beating patternless with drive
My vagabonding wrench
The unsatiable back and forth of an endless throbbing hea…

Anhedonia strike, and he donned my fancy,
or qualities
despite many the maladies, and, I, fell too
drowned too to sing, too sound…

I suppose I had it coming. But this will make us even. Remember that.

Breathe in
As life breathes out
A sigh
Insanity’s echo
Alluring echo
That odd, lilting echo
A deadly siren
to your mind

Was it one
Or two
Or three hits you tried?

Mind fade…

swift current blow the petals ‘round
weaving tapestries of sound
one single voice to all united
tension builds
senses heighten

thunder roars behind locked door
drumming rain upon the p…

Light waves along a melody
Sweet melody my sight be fed
Image mirrored by the sea
From thine eyes brightly led
Crimson tide to amber hues
Fading into ocean blues
Gulls gather
All scatter…

They could never measure the distance between their separations, a separate path they take when times get rough.
In every way; they are almost two completely different people who once thought …

A candle lit dinner of farewell was on the agenda, well maybe in his eyes. She wore a lace number that kept him counting all night. His attempt to sum up the odds was distracted from the glare …

Quiver with tear drops seemed to be tonight’s only meal on his menu. Her lust that starved a hunger for unforbidden love, love he could not prepare. He thoughtfully cleansed his dirty hands, …