Yellow Sweater

Yellow Sweater

WA

YWP Alumni Advisor

Posts

  • Rome

    The Romans were made of marble. 

    With the heavenly grace of carved muscles and pride, 
    they equated Divine Providence with bureaucracy. 

    Each empire has its own currency,
    it's own series of sacred faces 
  • Her Constellations

    The light was soft, painfully soft. The exquisite gold of the sunrise muffled our passion. I reached for her hand, but she pulled away, regarding her own reflection in the lake with clinical poise.
  • Bangkok

    Sweat soaked and delirious in unflattering khaki, I smell durian:
    the notorious stink of custard, sweet side alleys, and jungle sunset,

    Tourists dream of cheap cloth and translators, 
  • Fleeting Fire

    Metal to metal; sweating and sea ready, 
    he mends his boat. 

    We drive through the blue shipyard, 
    listening to Christmas carols. 

    Dusk is quiet like the sunset was, 
  • Vacation

    What I remember most about France was the sun. Even though we visited during a time of historic storms, it glared. 

    In June of 2016, Paris flooded.
    You wouldn't believe how green the hills were. 

    Brexit, 

Loves

  • migration

    i, like many poets, have wondered a million times what it would be like to be a bird: soaring high above the trees, unburdened by life's banal worries. something primal and free. 

  • cutting fruit

    the sound of laughter through sun-spotted trees,

    i dreamed last night we were fae frolicking 

    in rings of toadstools, in and out of trees.

    fireworks went off in my head as 

  • on the off-road?

    two weeks ago we were stuck in the plains 

    somewhere in the midwest with no service. you pulled out 

    some 1999 AAA member's map and said 

    "crack it open," and i still loved you, even then. words flowed

  • Spring

    One very nice afternoon I went on a walk through the swampy wet woods to see the very pretty and soothing river flow on my way there I met this very cute and nice rabbit she said her name was Synthia, Synthia had walked with me to the river to wat