The night was ominous from the moment I set out in the carriage with him. I was now a married woman. The wedding night. I lowered my nightgown and let it fall down my curious tingling flesh, warm and willing. He left abruptly after a long hard frightened stare at my nakedness. Displeasure and disappointment occupied his face. He recoiled and hastened from the room. Now I was cold- was I wrong to offer myself, or did my body…
I lie looking out my windows my thoughts framed in four parts.I see the feeble efforts of a sun trying to dictate new rules tothe snow-baked ground,all the while the tress remains silent.They are sleepy, very very sleepy and are not willing to speak.Then I saw him,bright red, and winged, perched on a sleep-soaked bough.he stared at me and I stared right back,he troubled my thoughts and I resisted, clever red-winged bird unnamed to me I clicked my mind shut to…
I fell into the well of your heart your caramel lined heart there was a caramel ladder which I ate slowly, I will never get out. I shall perish in love with you. Have you reported me missing? close your eyes please dont let the light in you shouldnt see me dance nude. The well of your heart is where I live. LMH. 8/5/2020@ 8am.
Today I will tremble because I am in love with living. It is good to be alive. I will also bend in awe because I am grateful. I can bend. When I speak I will make sonnets in praise of nature and its manifestations and respect the sun and all the waters on the earth, They are not mine to trifle with. I won’t always smile, but know that I have joy within despite my pains. I am alive and…
Pain Is a place it’s not a feeling It’s a bridge between living and not really dying You have to be alive to understand pain. Pain is music, liquid music cascading down your head and shoulders Scalding hot; but it doesn’t kill you, Instead you peel on the inside and choke on your tears because the peel made you heave and covet the air you can’t breathe. Pain is a living thing with a long memory and an impressive…
Some Cannibals put on a dinner dance for their friends and family. It was wildly successful and thousands attended the smorgasbord, a wonderful display of chivalry of ancient times. They drank Moat Juice for days on end, as they celebrated four hundred and one years of ‘The Grendel’. If you did not get a ‘privileged’ invitation perhaps it’s because you could be on the menu. They had grown tired of eating “Strange Fruit” and had a yen for something rare….
There was nothing to prepare me for home-schooling, as there was no preparation for Covid-19, and lest I forget, there was no preparation for the impact you made on my life the first time that I saw you. A bit wrinkled and very pink with spiked hedgehog hair, hair that defied the brush, refused a ribbon as it stood up straight, black and shiny. I decided to leave it alone after a few attempts to create order. We gurgled together,…
In 1995, I took 100,000.00 United States dollars and deliberately plunged it into a small -business venture. I called it Briscoe Brown Books, and it had a motto; “Readers become Leaders”. I did not actively pursue a bank loan because I had done some preliminary leg work and heard from the ‘horses’ mouth’ in the banking industry that having a bookstore in a black neighborhood was not a good business venture for them to pursue. Determined, I took my…