His senses perk to the smell of green grass in a fertile garden, the light of a broad path made plain, a promising crack in the wall, and the laughter of better women echoing.
The one beside him mercifully slips his fingers.
The one beside him mercifully speaks.
Leave me a kiss for my collection, here in the tender crook of my arm, and remember me sometimes that I was your Darling in the dead and lonely place.
I am an essayist and poet. My work has been rejected by some of the finest journals in America. Fortunately, it also gets accepted from time to time and has appeared in equally fine journals such as Word Riot, Inlandia, Brew City Magazine, and SageWoman, among others.. In 2002, I won the Academy of American Poets Prize for Vanderbilt University.
For no good reason, I possess an unnecessarily dark humor which is why being third generation California Inland Empirian delights me so. My gods are weird. I once won $350 for writing a smartassed essay on “why the wise use of water is important in my daily life”. I am undoubtedly the Greek god Hermes’ special snowflake. I’m pretty sure I got into college via a series of fortuitous clerical errors.
When I had to grow up and get a real job, I decided against it and stayed a writer. I have worked many odd—and I mean odd—jobs to support my habit: PR writer for country music hopefuls, resume massager, WalMart fitting room attendant and switchboard operator, and telephone psychic, just to name a few.
I am also albino. That's why my psychic gifts are so strong. I traded in my pigment for magical foresight, because that's how it works. It gets all technical. Trust me. That's totally how it works.
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2 thoughts on “Darling (poetry)”
Pulled in by the ache of feeling the “laughter of better women echoing”I let out an audible “oh!” when I got to this line: “Leave me a kiss for my collection.” Brilliant.
M. N. Ashley 
Pulled in by the ache of feeling the “laughter of better women echoing”I let out an audible “oh!” when I got to this line: “Leave me a kiss for my collection.” Brilliant.
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Thank you so much. I’m usually more head than heart in my writing, so it’s so good to know the feeling translated.
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