Category: Present-Day Poems

At midnight, I hear the moon calling from the edge of the roof. […]
His carelessness tastes like forbidden fruit— sweet enough to make restraint seem childish. […]
At the hour when daylight loosens its grip and the sky bruises itself […]
I did not mean to create them.  I was grieving.  The earth watched […]
Desire begins quietly: like the smell of oranges after rain, like a window […]
The fog comes on little cat feet. Soft as a held breath, it […]