A Gift

Sneeze inducer. Haha.

Exhausted each day
After education of a
Different kind
Learning the ropes while
Pulling them close to me
I am breaking into a
New life, Circe on a deserted island

Hopeful
Encouraged
And determined
This gift of newness
Sprinkles itself all over
A seeking body–vengeful by default
Freeing me of worry
And despair, turning me loose into the wild

Losing It

Shooing the love licks
from his scaly grasp,
she catwalks over his
crackling bones.

Sashaying in moonlight’s embrace,
a dance of old love
flutters in their palms.

Losing it all in the midst
of tortured breaks,
battling for life’s new years
that only come
at dawn
and not a moment before