The Destruction of David (1)
David glanced down at his bare feet as the blue liquid flooded the tank he stood in. It had the consistency of glue, and felt cold. Very cold, as if it was…
Hot and Cold Breakfast
It all started with a tiny spark. “So,” she asked coolly over the steam from her coffee, “how was the party last night?” Admittedly, I was not in the best…
Icicle.
bites. gnaws and grinds. stiffening sinews grow taut and ring, quivering and humming as they strum like a harp. touch becomes tangled. signals cross. what was…
In The Cold, Cold Night
The wind surges from the North sending chills across my body. You invite me to the fireside, blanket and cocoa in hand, welcoming and warm eyes staring back to…
Winter Winds
Bundle up, children, it’s cold outside. The sun set long ago and I’ve wrapped myself up in my thick peacoat and knitted scarf. And you’re beside me, chuckling…
I'm Going Out
“I’m going out.” I said it mostly as an instruction to myself. The empty studio apartment neither heard nor cared. On a really bad day I would have pretended…
Sunlight
I want to fall asleep In a bathtub full of hot water that never gets cold. I want to fall asleep and dream Dreams of sugar and light I want to wake up and…
Baby it's Cold Inside
I faced north, from whence the cold wind blows; the tears streaming down my cheeks spreading the dust aside as with unbridled indifference a troop of…
Intrusion to Solitude
“Thought I’d find you here.” I hear her. I refuse to really listen. My trajectory takes me right past her, but I refuse to alter course, to acknowledge her…
cold showers
inch open eyes the hazelnut milk walls salute me another day in suburbia swing out of bed pad along on the thin slice of carpet soaking up my feet as i reach…
Ice Cold
She screamed loudly, running in the snowstorm. Arabella couldn’t hear anything over the loud howling of the wind. Her blonde hair whipped around crazily as the…
Darkness
There with Them, the others, who want u near, it fills my mind with pain and fear. You see i fear i’m not the one, i fear that they’ll shine just like the sun…
Soup or Stew?
I was put up here nearly a year ago. Now my lid was covered in dust. Looking down from the highest shelf above the kitchen stove, I had a great view out the…
The Man I Married
“I didn’t choose this,” I whispered. Then, louder, as I worked up my nerve and convinced myself of what I was saying, “I didn’t leave a pathetic cop-out of a…
Swiftly Given Death of Emotion
Burning, robbing Breaking trust The adamantine heart dreams Not quite dying - yet lost. The antithesis of hate This frostwork flame feeds On secondhand songs …
Haunt
Whisper in the wind Trapped between a synonym And a dark, cold place
Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 1
I looked up, waking from a daze. My cold, pale fingers shook as they held a small black-and-white photo. It was of a small girl, maybe 16-years in age…
One Day Traded
A hardened heart in a frosty knoll Chest of compressed grasses Is a frigid, fragile, undressed soul Hidden as it passes Through you, what you never…
Telling Touch
A tongue of finger-tips Slips onto warm, slick, scarlet lips To catch the cold, thick, icicle drips-- Splashing numbness nips at the core Telling touch it…
White Cold
Breath of alabaster frost Billows up like willow flowers loft. A barren tree’s embossed Unto the scenery when Snow flakes make Its tendrils pillow soft again.