The Ojibwe
Vomit spread out from the kneeling form of Noah like a surrealist painting. The fire had gone to embers, and the wind was cold in his sweat soaked hair and…
Arising From the Subconscious
I was on an operating table. I didn’t know how I got there. I remembered laying on the beach next to my brother, but that wasn’t quite right. My brother was no…
Dream Sequencing
He tossed, turning under the covers, and sweating from the terror of Jacob’s figure morphing before him into a giant laughing mouth with joker lips and a…
Things that need to be done
“You are my sweetest downfall.” His words startled her and she looked up to see him standing in the doorway. “What does that even me?” she asked him, a smile…
A Softer World
I smiled, taking in the breeze deeply through my flared nostrils. Unfolding beneath my feet ran a cool creek, lazily making its way to the base of a tall stone…
Temporary Opulence
The roar of the small engine plane is all you could hear as I looked down onto a miniature version of a small town Texas landscape. I then leaped with faith…
Blessed Relief
The rain drummed on my skull and soaked through my hair, down my collar, along my spine in icy trails. It had been dry when I left the house. I hadn’t anywhere…
Second Sight
I woke up today with my eyes closed. I had been dreaming. I was still dreaming, actually, but I could feel the covers, hear the ceiling fans, smell the sharp…
Recurring Dream
Touches of Collective skin (Such is love)-- Water rushes Large and luscious Light and slim In between my dim Conscious, Heaven, seven phases of Venus, And all…
I have a dream, still.
There is a misconception that the issue of race and the separation of the haves and have nots is not there. That is wrong. Daily my children are called spics…
Which Day Falls the Dream
Love comes, and love goes. We all know this , and yet for the preservation of sensibility and face the sin persists--denying affection’s course. You hold my…
Choice
Sitting on the beach, arms stretched out behind me for support, fingers squished in the sand as I stare out at the rolling waves and crashing ice-caps. The day…
Room 203
The woman burst into the room, doors swinging violently but silently on their practical and well oiled hinges. Her eyes bled mascara in small traceable rivers…
Where Dreams Take
“I had the dream again.” The words hung in the still August air, hardly able to drift to Mabel’s ears. She let the statement take its fluttering course to the…
Awakening
As I lay in the blood stained catacombs of my mind, I entered a state of sheer peacefulness. I felt alone; my once thriving world had been silenced by a simple…
Swept Away
I struck up a conversation with one of the nearby Marines as their leader started randomy demanding series of twenty push-ups to try to keep the troops’ minds…
Decision Gate
After a few minutes, we arrived at the Decision Gate. It had the effect of a large spider web with a slight blue shimmer. Rinne drew close to the web, the…
Into the Garden
“C’mon, quick... We don’t have much time.” Marcus waved the rest of us in to the lobby area of the department store, dimly lit during its closed hours. “This…
Dreamer
“I don’t like the way this building looks.” I state to myself as I destroy it to build another, yet I never physically do anything to the building. There’s no…
Composure.
“Do I pray now? Should I pray?” “Hell, I’ve never prayed a day in my life and I shouldn’t start just because of this.” “Even if I started, who would I pray…