THE ARTS

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination…

Every night I wonder why I am up and then the page scratches the pen or is it the pen scratches the…

I hope marriage never takes the life out of my eyes like it did my mother, and my grandmother, or her mother…

They were warned. They were warned of the ones whose smiles soothed the coldest hearts, whose laughter caused the darkest of rooms…

Gentrification (noun): The process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste.  Have we ever…

Me, a little girl In the crazy garden Working for the big girls I look up as They strut in With the…

Here we go, baby Early city, hungry to conquer The doors open but you Ignore the beggar on the train Weak grandfather…

When do unattended-to childhood patterns Turn away from shame and Toward intentional tools of destruction Requiring only a whispered demand to be …

softening denotes a lesson learned and overcome: the reunification of soul wisdom with the mind i examine a slice of the atrium…

I’ve written short stories for as long as I can remember. If I re-read them now they go from being painfully hormonal,…

On a dark and cold December night that mystified the looming melancholy stretching its wings over the starry blanket, yellow street lights…

If my heart could write forever, What would it say? Would it just make musings of the pretty shapes on pretty paper…