He is so nervous, he doesn’t believe anything good is happening related to the world premiere of his film, of his directorial debut, “THE DREAMERS & I.” Since he was in his teens, he’s been making films, in supportive roles,…

*This is a piece I started a while back on a prompt to write an exactly 100 word flash piece. Definitely outside of my typical free verse poems, but I got excited about the scene and felt like this form…

We might envy windswept leaves by late morning last night’s dewdrops have burned off revealing a fresh surface We might wish the breeze or sun might as easily evaporate our own tears What some notice early others much later how…

It’s always been big. So big that when he was small enough to fit in my hand, my friends thought he was wheezing, had asthma maybe, his whole black-and-white body heaving with sound. As he got older the purr stayed…

"What shall we do now?" he asked. She gave a sexy look and said, "I could think of something." He didn't take the bait but his head was spinning. She was wearing some sort of club sweater and shorts. Her…

She envies herself, the woman that she was. In spite of the setbacks, she was lucky back then, she knows that now. A lucrative job at the Company writing words that she knew no one would ever read. Words that…

This prompt line invites poetry because of its strict and delicious scansion....perfect iambic quadrameter...add one more syllable and you have Shakespeare... To love the hidden and the small, You have me up against a wall, Until I'm forced to loudly…

To love you is no hardship at all None but the work already, laboriously done in learning how to love all things, however small even this ant I think should rather be finding crumbs on the street but for the…

People are snobs about whatever it is they like, they love. What we love, ultimately, is ourselves, and we strain against the desire (some straining less than others) to tell people how superior we are based on sports we want…

WE were in a class, a graduate class at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma , Washington. I was getting a Masters in School Counseling at University of Puget Sounnd; she was doing the same at PLU. In the introductory "icebreaker"…

how to find them. how to help. they don't feel deserving and often sabotage all efforts. I can love these parts, even as they reject, and tuck further into their caverns and swamps. how may I include you? How may…