napowrimo2020 #4 (slippery)

days shimmering with 
abundance and promise pass
right through my fingers

napowrimo2020 #3 (for the nurses)

for the sixteen hour shifts

for the cracked lips

for the vice-like bladders

kept waiting waiting waiting

for the queens in blue 

for those who are spat on

for those who are shat on

while giving giving giving

everything they have

everything we take

we salute you

napowrimo2020 #2 (the bright side)

the big dark

barricades the door

bars the windows

a false cage

kept locked by pain

but inside

with nobody watching

my own two hands

spin gold

from a pencil case

shards of gilt-light

spill out 

from the cracks

illuminating

the big dark

napowrimo2020 #1 (lonely)

no talking mirrors here
no soul to feed but mine
and I am good at starving

permanence (haiku)

uncontainable 
breaching barrier membranes
pain is enduring

better and worse

immaterial gain
measured in saltwater
leaking out of bounds

non compliant

they are terrified
of the witches
the harridans
the hags
they are shaking
in their boots
their comforts
their trinkets
clutched ever closer