One of eight of my poems published in Sibling Rivalry Press’ Assaracus poetry magazine, Issue 09, (10 Jan 2013). JANUARY 26th The taste of tears, in a room, on a bed, through my fingers the light rises and falls: silvered blush to shadeless gray, the unspoken suffering bleeds the skin hue and drains away. […]
Tag: grief
That Day: Nine Eleven, September 11th, 9/11
Six a.m., and I’d just finished a long night on patrol. An infuriating highlight had been dealing with a frustrating situation where a drunken woman had caught her drunken boyfriend sexually fondling her underage child. A huge fight had commenced during which he bit her cheek open, yet after we arrived and worked out all […]
I Have To Dance: Grieving For a Suicide
It’s never an easy thing, even if it is someone you haven’t seen in a long time. When you hear what’s happened, when you learn they are dead, for me anyway…when I am first told, I breath a sigh of relief. You might think that’s odd, but I the first thing I think is, “They […]
