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Here's a poem I've always liked and I think it's pretty good. It's just not...right yet. Any thoughts? My grief breaks me, I...

Emily Dickinson said hope is a thing with feathers, delicate, light, and small. I think hope is giant beast with fangs, claws, and fur. It c...

Mostly, I'm posting my old poetry because I'm too busy revising Dracula's Secret to come up with anything new for this blog. Eme...

I was reading the Aeneid and I got to my least favorite part - Dido's death. So I wrote this as a retort to the unnecessary death of a b...

Here's an original poem I call Emergency Surgery. I miss you like a tumor I didn’t know I had. I never noticed the weight of you, suppre...

I'm visiting my family this week! The plan is to jot as many notes as I can, write when I can, and smile a lot.