Category: Words
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Fire Island: The Phoenix Within
With rocks that flow As clouds catch alight,Where the daytime’s darkenedAnd the night-time’s quite brightThe seas around are stirring someAs if they know of what is to come.The volcanic lands begin to stirThe air becomes thick, the horizon a blur,The lands spew flames high into the airThe waters hiss as if they care.Steam evaporates, Molten…
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Frazzled, Bedraggled, Rattled
This is how I feel right now,It isn’t how I lookThe temperature’s so hot right nowI couldn’t give a Friday afternoon Notice the hair. Not like mine. Not at all. Well, maybe, in parts. But who’s counting? And the hooter… reddened through all the sneezing. And the shirt… clingy like a second skin. And the…
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The Nightmare
The face in the reflection of the old broken mirror kept changing. He… she… it… transformed in more ways than one… older… younger… thinner… the person looking out of the mirror was most definitely not the person looking into it. Shattered and gaunt, no voice to scream, trapped in an absurd reality and no means…