The Gazelle Go to your beloved, swift as the King’s steed Coveted among horses, cosseted in feed. When the whip cracks, it can’t be held...

You’re galloping like El Cid, on a flat Mississippi stretch on a quarter horse-Arabian mix, rented from a nearby ranch its legs as long...

Water Spell A crocodile waits on the far sandbank. I wade through waves, while my beloved casts a water spell, a verbal shield to flank...

The barrel stave was riven where she drank. Knots nestled, she lay on the cooling board a trestle made of evenly sawed planks. I’d built...

Three ships sailed on a sea’s soft swell, a small sea, but one full of wrecks. In those wrecks, drowned men, their spent bones and from...

I Steep path, up the limestone stair, sediment and sand hardened to bedrock, yet porous. Groundwater flowing through, that reinvents the...

The more I died, the more I came to life. In quicklime quickened, I returned as breath the way a cut releases from a knife. My blood had...

In 5/8 time, we row toward our demise. Rachmaninoff supplies the oars, the boat the waves, the craggy cliffs, the leaden skies. All we...