My Warm Heart

He left me with a heart
ready to explode, with love.
He was a good man.
Kind, warm, intelligent.

I didn’t know what
I was supposed to do
with all of that love.
It became a weight.

So, I tried to give it away.
“how hard can it be” I thought,
“to find another man to love?”
I found a rattlesnake instead.

I dodged its bite and braced
for a life of loneliness. Too many
predators - most have soaked
their lips in honey to hide fangs -

& I hate it when I must show
my fangs in order to survive.

I prefer to coil around my prey.


~Sabrina



　

Duck a l' Orange

Life goes on, floats among the wild reeds,
cattails guide the way around
edges barely defined. I could be

a duck in a small pond -
confused - mated to the wrong species,
with no desire to migrate -

no hunger for the open seas.
Every morning I would wait for you,
cast your old bread upon the water -

I would happily live on it.
I do not believe, you intentionally
devoured me. Love is weird

like that.


~Sabrina

A Hunk of Haiku

Crowded blades - green -
reach for the sunshine - tangled roots
run the opposite way.

　
Lips lust - nectar lost -
salted tears burns parched skin
now smooth leathery soft -

　
Word- whispered- remembered
later into the setting sun-
horizon bleeds pink.

Pastel painted dreams
travel further edgewise
too far to dare reach.


~Sabrina

~African Refugees In The Sinai

Throw away people
stripped of innards

left to die in the desert
sun
so that those

with better lives
should live.


~Sabrina

~ 420 & Main

I hated that old house
with its dirt basement
full of unseen creatures
invisible sticky webs strung
across black and greasy old
railroad ties that held
the whole pathetic thing up
and called to me to swing from
a rope around my neck in the
darkness. The night I went
down those dark narrow tunnel
stairs to face my fears
I found kittens.



~Sabrina

The Brat

Mother’s favorites are the three,
who tried to come after me.

The two, who died clinging
to the outside of her womb.

The one who made it in - after
Roe vs. Wade - and wasn’t allowed
to grow. (Can’t say I blame her -

both ectopic pregnancies nearly
killed her.)

Those three - never gave her the trouble
I did.


~Sabrina