A Dream I Had While Asleep, January 20th 2026      The air in my grandparents’ house tasted of woodsmoke and old memories, a stillness that usually feels like an ending. But then she was there. Marsha. Not as a memory, but as a living presence, radiant and solid in the center of the living room.     My […]

Lioness of the Desert        Julian stretched, the clatter of china against ceramic a small rebellion in the hushed breakfast room of their Marrakesh riad. Outside, the morning light, already fierce, began its daily assault on the city’s ochre walls. He looked across the table at Eleanor, her expression composed as she stirred her […]

The Soft Clatter of Love and Old Tin Spoons at Midnight: The Unsaid Poetry of Home        I love Central Park in the Fall. The city feels fresher and cleaner for some reason. As I walked past the Zoo, I heard a kid crying. I remembered what it was like to be a kid. […]

Coffee Shop Chanteuse sweet Bourbon necklacelaced in cappuccino embersof lost quiet moonshinedeep in pirate alley kisseswhen Luna rides her stallionhigh in the heat of summer skyover spired flames of starsthat burn in a rhapsodyof dark river chicorywhose smoke swirls in arabesquesset in ivory circlesof Monet jazz songswhose rose scented steamis the perfume for a June waltzEnfolded […]

Cradled In the Mist and Moonlight of Her Druid Nights        I make my bed in a patch of clover perchance to dream. And I dream of her under the stars on a summer night. There she is the woman whom I have known but whom I cannot name. Often, I have walked the desert […]