Deciding not to go to Junior Prom

“I just want to feel
pretty,” she says through her tears.
She already is.

Radio interview

You ask, I answer.
Opinions fly. No right, wrong.
It’s all subjective.

Levenger

Trying to make work
indulgent, a nine-to-five
wage slave’s fantasy.

Cold snap

Lulled by summer’s false
start, forty degrees reminds
us that April lies.

Writing

Rubik’s cube of words
adjectives nouns verbs form a
perfect turn of phrase.

Rain

Like eyes heavy with
grief, grey clouds spill a steady
patter of sorrow.

Undone

Pulling apart a
life together, the future
frays like a cut edge.

Ending

It happens over
coffee, one stunned, the other
already elsewhere.

Realization

She woke up seeing
him in a different light
flame sputtering out.

Facebook status after the breakup

“There’s always rain at
the most appropriate times
in my life,” he wrote.