I want to expand my opportunities to share and interact through this blog, So I thought I would start putting some poetry out there. This was written and first published in 2000. I have included it here as it first appeared in the Writers Center of Indianapolis literary magazine, The Flying Island, Volume 8, Number 1.

Hostile Africa

The Elephant Tree reminds me of you
shiny light leaves in the moonlight

Quite possibly you were

Teaching the leopard new tricks
changing spots, shifting eyes, red lips
fang and file to a point

you could never get across

the vast savannas of your heartache
thunder of Victoria's falls pulsing
in your soul white noise

Drowning out the shouts of your grief

over why one missionary
in erring, abused your heart.


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