I still have not learned to sleep in a burning house

I still have not learned
to sleep in a burning house
I weep smoke, dream ashes
fist full of matches

Marriage, Sometimes

Your breath this morning:
A failed cheese experiment.
Love you anyway.

Synonyms for Anger

The sunlight at noon:
hard, flat, and without mercy.
A bright blade against.

Your Childhood is Imaginary

Nowhere you’ve been can be home.

The paper façades
of last week cannot hold you.

25/30: Rainstorm

From the foothills launch

a thousand proud-bowed ships. War

on the blue mountain.

8/30: Reckless

Joy is as reckless

as rage: the glad smashing tail

of a golden dog

7/30: Love Poem to the Minor Keys

Songs in minor keys:

The prayers I cannot speak.

You, too, search and never find.

Houses with open windows,

Rivers, not still ponds. 

Prompt from NaPoWriMo.net: Write a love poem to an inanimate object

Women, Stop Apologizing So Much

My boyfriend told me

I apologize too much

I said, I’m sorry

River

River: a ribbon

wet with dye in a hundred

colors with no names

Honest Sadness Makes for Bad Poetry

Sadness, like

faint stars or hard truths,

is better seen sideways. Your

reading glasses are

telescopes.

I guess I'm on a haiku kick lately. The form combats my tendency to ramble :)

Poeming!

Hey, everyone! April is approaching, and it's National Poetry Writing Month. Participants aim to write 30 poems in the 30 days of April. Many of us are listing our websites on http://www.NaPoWriMo.net in order to share what we're doing with the challenge.

Normally I don't post much of my poetry online, mostly because I'm hoarding it and submitting it to literary journals and such in hopes of getting some published. But I'll make an exception for April. That said, in order to keep up I'll have to post a lot of drafts (eek!)

In that spirit, here's a small poem I don't mind sparing from my hoard:

 

 

The Yellow Pansies

 

Broken pansy bloom.

I think: How brazen to bet

one's fate on something so paperlike,

looming, wind-tilting, on such

a slender stem.