Light and Gold

There’s a way that shadows play over hardwood floor when only lamplight spreads the gleam and darkness hides in shades. It seems a closer kind of light a bright that almost reaches out, shakes your hand and winks as if to say the shadows always leave this way, when people really care to light the […]

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Take the Lamp

It seems a cold, dark shaft where love would bid me go— deep beneath the hills. The memories, sand-like, blow— a heart-blinding draft.   I’ve walked the caves before— walked them with a thief until the stars were gone; I know the haunting grief— and I cannot anymore.   But I forget that love, with […]

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