ripped wings what you make of faith

*Published in Sonic Boom Issue Sixteen
**Selected for the 2019 Red Moon Anthology

If I May Be Honest

not enough love poems

have been written

for the leaves

sparkling wildly

in golden hour light

or the river’s

tender aria

playing dawn to dusk

simply

for anyone who

wishes to hear

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #17

Why Not

you can be

anything in the world

so why not

be a parachute

covered in the most luminous

warm hues

helping others land

gracefully

after a most precarious fall

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #17

Hummingbird

it must be

how starlight

falls upon this

foreign city

because I tell you

I could roam this earth

non-stop

as the vagabond

I wish I could be

with only the essentials

slung upon my back

and your hand

nestled in mine

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #17

First Snow

when I see

for the first time

each year

the way snow reflects

a shimmering moon

upon a world 

fast asleep

I might as well

be a child again

opening her first present

on Christmas Eve

*Published in Fireflies’ Light: A Magazine of Short Poems #17