Placation (for RP)

You all know, I thinkwhat a “staycation” is, right?Either you can’t afford a bigger vacation,or you just want an easier … More

Danger Woman Speaks

In your condoI set myself on listening modeonly.  To speak would be to assaultyour space, the airwaves here are filled100% of … More

A Haunting

He picks up the pin I’m using to enlarge the glue holes on the battleship model I’m building and stabs … More

Madison Sleepwalk

I’m holding a candle. When I open the door, although there’s no breeze, it begins to flutter, casting odd shadows … More

Veteran (for AG)

It stormed constantly, every day.  Hawai’i was definitely sick of the horrible weather. I wondered about it, then decided to ask … More

09.11.01

By the time I woke up that day, still groggy, uncomprehending an early morning email flood from friends on the … More

Promontory

When all the uses of this world fall flat, man,round yourself up on the certainty of action. No work comes … More

Mad Money

Clipping coupons forever to save money,snatching at bargains, fast shuffling cardsstuffed up sleeves to deal on the sly,eyes shifting jungle … More

Right or Left Behind Me

She stands behind me while I struggle with the connectors. “Come on,” she says, “it’s lefty loosey, righty tighty. Don’t you … More

Future, Future

Today’s word is future Use it in any kind of a piece of writing and leave it as a comment … More

Up Us

I’m driving this piece of shit rental car while my baby sits in the shop getting her dents hammered out.  I … More

The Gardener

Today’s word is desire Use it in a sentence or two and post what you wrote in the comments below. … More

Stalk

Today’s word is craving Use it in a sentence or two and leave what you write in the comments below. … More

The Children

Right now we are fucked up badly.  It’s goneway beyond a problem,how we’re living in a world of pretend.  Rememberthat from back in … More

Hawaiʻi Sonnet 80 (Ghost)

Nothing, Oh Banquo, our ghost of the martlet hall,can bring you back to reasoning in some healthful clime.Uncheerful then, you … More

Oh Fer-un (for FVC)

That frugalness I witnessed in the clipping,lovingly, carefully of coupons and can labels,box tops too, your caress of good deals, … More