Author Archives: Pearl

One more poem draft before I get back into text ruminating of what I’ve been reading…. Never heard tell de like of dez farm help somma em settle in real nice like dey was always with us. somma em ain’t kept de sense god give a goose — ‘oud drown in drizzle — downpour’ould* do […]

grand centralia is abandoned away, there is none to be thrown to for garbage or daughters. Another day another landfill overflows with might-haves. burn them, restart tender tinder, recoil from flammables, deify gambles, ashes. smoke’s lies swear soldier’s oaths, never again… embers draw low breaths, ignite anthracite veins to smoulder decades sinkholes open air beneath […]

The One Deep Breath prompt of the week is One Line haiku. The urban highrise spring has no flowers, no color change. There’s newness in rain, thunder, and one marked seasonal return, once the ice and snow has gone for sure… . . . spring comes in Harleys gunning . . . If you go […]

Sometimes shredded packing paper wasn’t shredded vertically…it’s not distraction if it becomes intent… text reads: minarets and mosques / still / reference income. / who did not want to give/ assigned / your tentative war with / a value control. It, River / that runs through generated each day / arguments in their rest located […]

This is a Postlette Outlet. Sort of like a Postal Outlet, yes, except completely different. This isn’t a post, per se, see. Because I’m not posting today, as by prior agreement with myself, and I see no conflict with posting, er, postletteing, if I close my eyes while typing, so if you see any typos, […]