DREAMS by D.L.McHale
the world spins on a tilted shaky spindle and we hold on tightly with our hopes and dreams (there is no space for anything but dreaming!) we defy gravity with our capacity to love and cherish we are...
View ArticleSUICIDE SISTERS by D.L.McHale
My Suicide Sisters! Would that I could deeply reach beneath the dark-moist earth pulling upward closely to my breast fistfuls of your white-bleached bones – to feel the jagged edges pressed against my...
View ArticleWHERE I LIVE…AND DIE by D.L.McHale
How temperamental is the man in me who misses you but will not call – because I find the thought of romance more alluring than actual love? I drink to burn the voices in my belly that mock my tenuous...
View ArticleLIVING FOR TODAY: NECESSARY CHOICES by D.L.McHale
Three Roads: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Which One Shall I Choose? The reason most people find themselves stuck in a rut is because they insist on seeing tomorrow as an extension of today, and...
View ArticleLOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING by D.L.McHale
Love… Whole platters of Expectation Handled timidly by Waiters and Waitresses of desire. Carelessly slipping Through now Trembling fingers, Once bold and sure. Tragically Tumbling beyond Last moment...
View ArticleBEFORE by D.L.McHale
Before the ashes, Vulcan’s vengeful fire. Before the sex, a deep and burning desire Before the storm, a dark and restless quiet; Before the morning, a deep and somber night. Before the hunt, the...
View ArticleHOMECOMING by D.L.McHale©
The royal robes of winter’s night tightly bind me in its blue-black grip The shadow of majestic purple mountains kneel upon the fields of frozen graves ancient tombstones, like granite faces hemming...
View ArticleA CARNAL CONVERSATION
Like a butterfly, obsessively fluttering in my mind: Open-winged and delicately perched within her soft pudenda; smiles in kind dripping dew, and all for the want of a kiss. She is…vinegar and...
View ArticleHaiku Chainstream
angry thunderstorms across deep blue ocean swells star-kissed explosions star-kissed explosions lover’s passion-clenched eyelids soon sleep descending soon sleep descending life demands its sacrifice...
View ArticleCRY OUT TO THE HEAVENS
by D.L.McHale, Sept., 2021 i. Two sparrowsbeneath the handof fate –does the omniscient eyebehold needor does it blinkand look away? ii. Life offers choices…to accept the solace of beliefin a...
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