Decomposing

dreamscape
of fallen trees
a silent vigil held
by mosses and lichens in your
honor

The Hurt You Cannot See

...they asked her to tell what happened only to discount her memory... (Lorna Simpson, "Waterbearer," 1986)

Fractured
in places hard
to imagine. X-rays
only show a fraction of what's 
broken.

“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

― Nikola Tesla

For Ken:

Blueprints

In your

childhood pictures --

the gaze of one whose mind

is on the verge of inventing

something.

Cindy Tebo