Villanelle #1

“Well said,” I say, as if you were quite right.
How mighty your mind seems at my command,
Though sometimes you look pale against the light.
 
They say to have a pallid face shows plight
in soul. Ah well, I take your sweaty hand.
“Well said,” I say, though I know I am right.
 
So dark’s a rhyme when rhymed [...]

The Search

Where is an Aphrodites?Marilyn has failed me and my
Dark brown hair.
Her alter is too neon
And my eyes
Are still too weak from years in
The dark-room.

The screen is void of her,
The screen which led me where
I’ve gone so far. It has no
Aphrodites, no prude Diana,
No smart-aleck Athena
Telling everyone just what to do.
[...]

A Tetrametric Sonnet

(Three weeks straight of Elizabethan verse gets to a gal.)
 My beaten heart no longer beats.
The doctors leave for weekend plans;
They say my heart will go no more
As others go. No other glance
From other men will move it forth
From whence it came. No other song
Will lend it measured meters and
No other scale will test its worth
As [...]

55 Words #1

The blog “55 Words” has started a trend of 55-word short stories online. I think this is an excellent exercise, so occasionally be posting some of my own attempts of these miniature pieces. This particular one shows that I have been reading too much Chuck Palahniuk lately:

This slow-walking hipster has red hair that looks like [...]