Tuesday, December 2, 2014



Affixed to the snow
Wintery eyes 
deny nothing

Her intricate braid –
Too stiff
Too rigid
Desires to wrestle the fire in her hair

grant the wind 
access 
to tame her

released
Docile never earned her a step
blood dripping from her nose
Drenched across her lip
gathering delicately 
Harassingly  

she discovers
She must cure
her own Malady
returning to the place 
she knows best

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Rapunzel

evening stars
insist I venture to grace them

though shackles restrain and humiliate
heaven still persists

desiring the romance of the Earth
under my bare feet

I would rather topple onto gravel
little pebbles imprinting memories
of the plunge
dirt weaved throughout my hair
crying out in anguish

but then
he avenged me
depleting the youth
snipping the dead ends.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

My name is...

Inspired by  Sandra Cisnero's, "My Name" from the House on Mango Street



My name is the color aquamarine. It's a greenish- blue shimmering as the sun sets. Sparkles twinkling and running around the water, playing a game of tag with the disappearing light.
My name fills my nose with salt water, causing me to gag, feeling an extra layer of suffocation. Sometimes it leaves a trail of dry down my throat, sometimes it takes a while to return to normal.
My name belongs to a mermaid, somewhere, whose lost the love she had for the water. She doesn’t really know her name that much anymore.
My name is three syllables, and moves like a wave on your tongue. Mer – eeeeee- na. The last bit landing gently onto the shore, pouring out the ocean, leaving the bubbling foam, and pulling back in whatever remains. 
My name is strong. It never stops moving. Sometimes it’s stronger than on most days. Sometimes its ready to let go.


What is your name?

Wednesday, August 1, 2012


She emerges from the sea
But not from the foam
It spits her beauty up
Lowering her to what she is
Scratched, scraped, broken
Marred with rough silence
Salt antagonizing her wounds
She no longer recognizes the undulation
That used to be her friend
Cowering, engulfed, angry
The wind mocks her vanity

An obscurity she has always known
yearning to be cleansed of this name
to know where she belongs
she will pay for her ignorance
her discoveries might allow her to let go
until then, 
she is a pariah
Perched on carefully placed rocks
Desperate for a glimpse of understanding
Waiting for permission to return

Sunday, January 1, 2012

January 1, 2012






The first day of 2012 - 50 degree weather! What a positive way to start off a new year. On another note, now that the holidays are over, there is nothing to look forward to except for the cold! And time to start planning a vacation to somewhere warm!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Day -1

To a year of snipping, slicing, ripping, reflecting, analyzing, displaying a love for words!