Category: Present-Day Poems

I do not love you with sweetness—  not with the hush of petals,  not like light falling on bread.  I want to touch you like […]

In quiet lies the soul’s refrain,beyond the noise, beyond the name.The self dissolves and edges blur,what is, what was, begins to stir.No voice, no truth, yet […]

The city wakes before we do— sirens in the distance,  a cab splashing through last night’s rain,  and someone shouting just to be heard.  The […]

She rose from the tide like a secret   unearthed,  hair tangled with wreckage and weed,  and eyes lit with the pale fire of distant […]

She came up from the sea— not walking, not swimming,   but as if the tide had let go   of her out of some ancient […]

The tide does not return what it has taken,  only drifts its hands over the ruin,  salt-lacing the splintered beams,  tonguing the rust-bitten anchor.  I […]