[tabby title="Poet Bio"] my pen tiptoes and pirouettes** Like bony streaksof neglect on your lips childhood weaves memory of me lickingmy lips - a perforated curve of blood disappears ** Like time's strokes ofundulation on your mural face blood sprays...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] mom's jaspé hands speckled with flourthe sunset-beige of a roti in the skilletis the negative eclipse of familial loveasterism of fatigue on her forehead cascadesdown her templesvermillion flames on the stove are the fingersof summer bequeathing warmthripening...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] the new year isn't new to youfor it brings back the memories flashing like fireworksfor it wells up your eyes because you're a bereaved kinfor it comes shivering like windowpane in a thunderstormfor it knits the greeting...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] they say why do you always complainabout the evil that is woven through usis there no good that prevails in our soulsis there nothing to appreciate or applaudits easy to complain than to fixi know it and...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] soma nestles in a comforting caress on the scalppneuma glides bursting into bars of floral tints –    the rose quartz whorl,           the oyster base,                  the leafy urn.like lower-case letters the figments of fancy sedimentonto the waterline of...