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Beside Myself, Beside The Beach
My love took me on a cruise to the moon, cool girls in the cosmos, and as usual, I am cursed to cascade before her, born damned, the devil’s daughter, never able to resist the rich taste of romance and unbridled passion. I am a slave to my seductress, simping, primping my hair and painting…
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Northlay Falls – Chapter One
Nobody comes to Northlay Falls. Nobody leaves Northlay Falls. Nobody looks into the lake. That is just how it is. We are born here. We live here. We die here, of boredom, or natural causes, whichever comes first. Seven generations of my family have wasted away here, and it’s the same for everyone else I…
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Eyes In The Portrait
There’s a new ghost in my gallery,peering from the frames of all my paintings,her stare, so accusatory,as she watches me with my wife’s soft hair,twirled around troubled fingertips,lips lost in a lullaby that lasts all night,ignorant of the rising sun and the expectation for a woman’s place to be in the kitchen, rather than underneath…
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Sins Of The Father
Once upon a time, many moons ago, when the sun shone new in the freshly made sky, God had a daughter. She was the first child. Long before Adam and Eve, or Jesus Christ, and long before all of you, there was the first and most treasured daughter, Invierno. You will not find her name…
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Rock and Roll
My rock and roll iconoclast, clasped tight in my cherry embrace, homecoming Queen with the devil’s flowers around her wrist, and I miss her when she splits to go buy me a drink, cheap cider, and a blossoming kiss when she returns from the bar, like the prodigal daughter.
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 