“Full Stop”

Thanks to Beyond Words Literary Magazine for publishing my poem “Full Stop” on the first page of their summer print issue. Here’s a look, complete with artwork: 

Cheers,
Charise

Slow Going

Moss in the mix here.  

The poem "Commuter Pew" once lived here, and has relocated––to the chapbook Muse in a Suitcase. 

The moss chose to stay. 

Soliloquy

Emptied Nest

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

- unfettered, unfeathered of sleepy tawny heads

grown captive to the wildness whence they came.

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

with memorabilia that bestow a private fame.

Rooms I pass ask if all is well and done and said.

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

- unfettered, unfeathered of sleepy tawny heads.

~ LCMH

(Opening line is taken from "This Lime-tree Bower my Prison" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)

Making an Impression

Soft Palette

The momentum of water lilies

is round, a resplendent haze

of emergent lucidities.

The momentum of water lilies,

repeating morning reveilles,

underscores Monet’s matinees.

The momentum of water lilies

is round, a resplendent haze.

~ LCMH

Second place honors for a poetry prompt about a painting, The American Scholar, May 10: https://theamericanscholar.org/a-familiar-public-place/#.VzPXfGOTRBY

Triolet

Venice

For a tourist walking a map

believing in a destination

maze of cobblestone lures and traps

for a tourist walking a map

short film of masks, tassels, glass wraps

into kaleidoscopic friction

for a tourist walking a map

believing in a destination

                                             ~ LCMH