Author | N. Daniel

You Stayed Calloused fingers Clenched around an old, Splintering garden spade. Wiry threads of graying hair, Disheveled under a fading baseball cap. Bronzed ...

No Regrets Her pen's shorthand impersonated the imprints in her palm which were created before the conclusion that the creases couldn't make the world perfec...

Corners Untouched by Madness The kettle's hiss like snakes closer and further from wisdom. The leaves like memories beneath the water tumbling. I visited six...

In Lives Before In lives before you were so kind. I swore I'd try to make you mine, but more have passed without you near. Your voice I have so longed to hea...

For Elliot You went through life at such a pace. At birth you nearly ran a race! I follow you, more slowly now, in quiet steps my heart allows. Your childhoo...

Her Autumn Cloak In a plain corner store on a quiet street worked a girl less concerned with herself. Though the days at the counter were hard on her feet, s...

Pillow Talk The past had never been his friend and it was hellish to pretend that he had never told a lie, but truth would make his Ammnah cry. She reveled i...

Tidal Behind a doleful pane of glass I prayed for you to call. The pilgrims taking bread at mass were swells beneath a squall. Outside they kissed a barren c...

Stars This sacred vault, divine tonight. We dine in consummate delight, gazing into sparkling starlight, mirrored in the eyes of midnight. These stars who da...

He willed it so... He earned her love. He willed it so. This void inside him could be whole But force is not a love to make. She never would be his to take. ...