The Women and the Children
The women and children
found strength in isolation.
A network
of song
dance
and unspoken motion.
A Dream Scheme
I've been weaving warmth around me
to keep the freeze of tentative survival out of my bones.
Sound Track
Conductor of emotion – and recall.
Bulging memories play on cue.
Ghosted visions manifest in full view.
Bonafide.
Commissioned by and recently published in a Mutual Mentorship for Muscians Anthology (2019)
Something Holy Hovers
Still water reflects.
Receives. Accepts
Warm deep-down breath,
Nowhere to get...
except ...
to the
clear --still --waters.
New respect.
From a Jazz Coalition Commissioned work— (2020)
No Sugar Blues for Me
The carnal faces
of stolen passion
Forged
from the need
for spirit quenching
Thirst that runs over.
Eyelids
Eyelids
heavy guards of entrance,
Send the reception
Backdoors.
C'mon with your creepin
I wuz expectin' you.
To.
Gypsy Soul
A gypsy's soul
comes out from under
the veil of
life/death life/death
and sees it"s
own reflection.
Early Work Collection