The Center Cannot Hold

In the taut, menacing air,

we are falling off the edge of the world.

Words slam into us,

from protestors who have no ladders

stretching into the clouds.

We feel the […]

Parasite

The parasite gets under your skin

and sings like an angel,

fusing your neurons,

fooling you into thinking

that blood tastes good,

and is good for you,

makes you think

your […]

Softening

Within the world’s troubled color I awaken,
pushing through the gates of sunrise,
the tense night pictures 
disappearing inside me.
I fight the knot forming inside,
the ropy chord after its ow […]

Sitting Behind

I sit behind my thoughts sometimes

And watch the fiction play out

all my selves beaming,

the starstuff and the alien

in my derelict garden.

Like shucking an o […]

Dark days

I knew he was dead right away,

my gentile approach,

my footsteps holding

my lonesome breath,

tip toeing on the white carpet.

Stealth walking,

bit by bit,

halting and […]

Awakening

The spring leaves dream by the creek
Of knowing resurrection, 
Gathering trance like with frequent intermissions,
Bedding iridescent beetles and butterflies
In their pillowy bosom,
As the […]

FEAR

The ego is greedy,

it clings like a viper expelled from the garden

screaming aloud

like a split atom.

Prancing on my belly,

another color begging me

to perform, to memorize,

my […]

Mona Lisa

I was first in line to gaze at you in a crowd,

and then I read your life story and gazed at you anew,

and finally saw you as a real woman,

yet not of this world.

It isn’t that st […]

Fear of the Ocean

The day is pushed inside out

as the sea waves claw at me,

I prance and hop through the flushing,

a dummy stiffness overtaking me.

as the foam breathes me in.

The […]

As I walk into the dim room,

a movie is playing

and my mom is watching intently.

I am there but I am not there,

an ephemeral planet in the making.

A spectral vision.

A light and dark murky […]

Ilene Kay Jewelry

I am an Artist of the Natural World infused with an Asian Influence. I am fascinated by the diverse patterns on leaves, rocks, trees, flowers and moving water working with the play of light in […]

The Benefits of Meditation

Meditation has beneficial effects on a variety of mental and physical factors, including a reduction in anxiety disorders as well as immune and digestive system disturbances. It is […]

Marijuana and Memory

The illegal and legal use of marijuana is widespread, and for millions of people

all over the world, it is their recreational drug of choice. Marijuana is by far the

most widely […]

The Two Selves

Visible in her yellow Houdini eyes

the blue sky is in splinters,

In this precarious geology of mind and mortal wounds

she possesses two minds,

everything had bled out […]

Family Photo, then and now

The faces of my family look happy and calm

Bending and folding the light,

time curving the wind,

rusting in our tissue paper faces,

our fissures hidden in blown up […]