Tadpole Press

I wrote "icicle at sunset" from a prompt at our Community Write-In on the Snow Moon. Upon listening to all the creations, I was struck by the inherent impermanence of an icicle.

I don't like to tell you this but when I cross the line I see you there too waiting, daring me with your bedazzled eyes of sapphire to take the final step until I am wholly submerged

they asked me what I'll write as if I could define such a thing as if the halls weren't covered in moss and brimstone the mountains weren't faded with fog and mirrors

some things, I've decided, are better left as fossils crumpled, shaken things you never would have said

the heat that came in waves throughout our homes, our feet, our minds sizzled like slugs caught on the drying, moth-eaten rind

they say you're only lonesome when it rains something about the gods weeping but I don't think that's true

the consistency of my dreams has changed recently

These tiny poems are freeing because they don't have to make sense. What does it mean to be a gleam in a buffalo's eye? What does it mean to be yesterday? Or a Saturday? What if whatever you wrote made perfect sense and no sense at all?

You may have noticed that I've started sharing more of my writing on this blog. I'll still offer thoughts on the creative process, but those will be interspersed with pieces I've written that are calling to be shared. This piece, I suppose, is actually both.

sometimes when I don’t have anything to say I sit outside and stare at stars just to remember