The Art Divas / Divas of Verse

Without The world will keep trudging through time without us When we lift from the story contest to fly home We will be as falling stars to ...

The Wind, One Brilliant Day   The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine.   “In return for the odor of my jasmin...

Things My Grandmother Said   Turmeric can heal anything but a broken heart. I’ve got some Benadryl I bet could shush that dog of yours. Soun...

In the Afterlife She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn’t. There was a house,...

Loving After Loss   for RP   when two people kissing               reinitiate each other’s foundation —Malva Flores (trans. Jen Hofer)      ...

American Dreams                                           Queens, NY, 1963   All day I dreamed of candy from the store on Hillside Avenue: b...

Elms   All day I tried to distinguish need from desire. Now, in the dark, I feel only bitter sadness for us, the builders, the planers of wo...