Marmalade Musings

A hot sun glistening white on gold sand Reaching to the sun crowned ocean, An ocean's-breadth East And to the feet of moon capped...

My basket is full, filled, flowering, A rooted spark blooming bright Amidst hawthorn blossoms White as a bridal veil And I wind about the...

I got a nosebleed considering a TikTok about spanking. Telling me to make a mistake So I can learn new things, spread my wings, Set...

Just a squiggle, just a speck, Proceed orderly through the wreck Through mire and light, more or less, The silly mystery we term "life" I...

Have a care walking through doorways When you don't know what you'll find Through them may lie a world Hard to wrap around your mind Be...

I found I was a ghost town Filled with spirits of some who'd been before Landscape pitted with the robbery Of mustachioed men Whose faces...

By the time I made it from drawing the curtains to the front porch All the glow had slipped off the clouds again Like apricot jam sliding...

I am uncivilized, strange, and wild I will not be a silent obedient child, Will not bend to patterns I know And paths I left for safer...

Where are the words to put to my wisdom? I have tried, and thought they were heard. Written, and thought I wrote well. How do I inscribe...

Here I have people think I want to be alone That shelter in place means I don't want company Here I have people who don't see these days...

When I have broken the ice shall I slip Into the water, let my breath dissipate as I Return to my element, seeking the sea. Cold comfort...

Choose peace I know it's hard, and I know it hurts-- I feel it too, beating like a wounded Bird's wings, aching like hunger, Itchy as...

They should have stopped the second they saw terror on your face They should have seen, and believed you enough to stop for, Though they...

Fuck 'nice'. The word I've hated a full score of years Finding it a shoddy bow out of real consideration Nice means you didn't pay...

This year around the table you may see some empty plates. My hope for your home is that they are merely holding space, And not instead a...

At first, it's just a mist Floating on the surface of the sea, at dusk. She lends more water to the air Creeping up the beach on feet...

Born into destruction and handed my reigns before I knew right from left, I still find signals blurry "This" meant "that", and my lexicon...

I have heard that there are people Who manage the motions of their lives Without the days when it hurts To choose and also to be still...

You killed the me I would have been I took the hurt like water takes stones Whether pebbles or boulders they all sank Left their ripples...

Beauty. Fire looming and smoke pluming and all Isee is beauty Through metal eyes that cannot cry and I make myself a stone Skipped across...