Just so you know, I lied about my weight on my poetic license.
wordplay
Segue
Joyfully spring from the last breaths of summer and gracefully fall
Happy in the forest
The best part of happiness is the pines.
Blue stockings
Book lovers are better under the covers.
Hiding from the sleep cops
I’ve had such bad insomnia the sleep cops have issued a warrant for my rest.
Flux capacity
Nature and wildlife
are gradually vanishing
like in the photograph
from Back to the Future —
our future is vanishing too
but we have no hundred
and thirty horsepower
gas-fired time machine
to go back and fix it.
Splat!
I don’t cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.
Antennae
Read instead of watch TV?
Now there’s a novel idea!
Poet’s id
Two most important things in a writer’s wallet: library card and
Perimenopause
freed pubescent girl
finally crawls out of time
into middle age
Down-mid-uptown
I’m a coffee is half-full kind of girl.
U.$.A.
America —
toxic profit
center of
the world
Bottled
trapped in a bottle
thrown out to sea
trapped in a bottle
my wishes are three
trapped in a bottle
that’s drunken me
trapped in a bottle
emotions stormy
trapped in a bottle
flashing brightly
trapped in a bottle
this vessel empty