Tag: poem

I offer a newish poem, So Clear Now. It’s one of those coming-of-age circumstances when suddenly you realize what you thought was a certain thing turns out to be not exactly right.

Remember the story of Perseus and Medusa? Here’s a version in which their relationship is something other than monster-hero., from Medusa’s point of view.

Genie, After the Split So the mythical genie in the bottle — don’t you always feel sorry for the genie? He or she is trapped in there, squished down, sometimes from a much-larger-than-human size, to fit inside something that, if…

Journal I’ll admit it, this week’s poem, Journal, is a bit of an unusual lyric. Did you ever think, driving along, that the way the sun curves over the horizon, just pinking in the sky as it rises, makes the…

Primer This week’s poem, Primer, is a short, lyric walk down memory lane. It previously appeared on Wattpad and now appears on the blog here for the first time. It’s the type of poem that says one thing and also…