she tried to muffle the click with outstretched hands, and the door closed softly leaving no trace of movement behind. trying to focus, trying to walk. and she moved, her eyes on the narrow street ahead her breath catching slowly her legs turning to stone as dread filled her heart and emotion huddled its beat. [...]

She angrily stubs the cigarette into her already-full ashtray and lights up yet another one. The sound of it fizzling to life comforts her. She inhales deeply and ponders on her perpetual situation in life. Will things ever change for her? She exhales in frustration. (Men. The enigma that perpetually continues to puzzle women over [...]

As I laid in the valley of shadow, I wept

Where’s my inspiration?
Where did you go and hide?
Where are you, my previous she?

Old but gold They used to tell Liars I'm now in hell

The gecko on the wall In our back-garden Is sixty gecko paces from the soil, The flower, the fly

It was an unusual kind of temple, It was a lobby And the god stood modestly to one side.

Blue and red Collide On the steps Of statues, Ears pound with the Rain of fireworks That could compete With winter storms, And I can hear, I can hear So much, But the words; I can Understand So little. But my eyes understand The celebration of life, Beneath the fire of The August sun, What [...]

Bones are blurred b’neath a blanket of tears All the while I’ve been bored Staring at a snaking procession Of the Santa Muerte. A pastiche of devotees stutter Out their cobbled prayers; The red rum weighs down on my stomach The drink wakes up the snake. I don’t share their sweating pilgrimage, The shivering prayer [...]