hands
become fists
that age-old story
the latest
in wallpaper patterns
bullet holes
split open
a teddy bear
spills its guts
heavy zipper
the dark gleam
of a body bag
a scarecrow
deprived of its head
another sunrise
each day
becomes a tunnel
silent prayers
worked in marketing communications with IBM and before that with one of the divisions of The State University of New York at Albany. Her poems have been published in cattails, Contemporary Haibun Online, frogpond, Haibun Today, The Heron’s Nest, KYSO Flash, Modern Haiku, Narrow Road, Ribbons, and Scarlet Dragonfly Journal. She currently lives with her husband in Brighton, New York.
