Turning Paige

Ashes to Ashes

2012-03-12T06:14:00.016-07:00

He kept her bound, to him.
Rules: don't speak unless spoken to,

words like yes, please never no.
Now he's the silent one, an echo dreaming

of lungs. His wife is near.
The two women stand shoulder to shoulder.

There is a faint scent of misery. Both sniff.

Mama called her beauty a false fire.
Yet, she has rendered him to ashes.

Flat as her tamed hair, just as he liked
her: limp between his merciless fingers.

She had to come, see him boxed and finished.
Her almost love, down and far away.

paige

OSI

Virtures of Patience

2012-03-07T10:44:00.011-08:00

O.'s deviant desires leave him small.
Yet with each minuscule victory She grows,
learns how far a man or woman will go. The
Ocean game: played with an ancient Abacus and
a bowl of water, their threaded whispers bloom; breathing reduced to a trivial habit.
Sense deprived, a deeper reality manifests,
watered by moments of stark vulnerability.
O.'s hat is Hers now and she walks out the
door wearing his desires.

Paige

Mag
threeword

in the Aboretum

2012-02-29T17:07:00.008-08:00

the measuring reed
is place where demanded,

her petticoats shyly crinkle and
the sound opens his heart.

yet, his lips continue to
navigate her scented body.

does she breathe?

placing his ear on her chest
he feels her life:
soft
slow
soft
slow

Ruari dips in and out of sanity,
broken by Her submissiveness.

3

The bonefolder

2012-02-22T10:10:00.000-08:00

feels his labor to be holy:
the brush
trails
down
Her
meets the narrow aperture,
full of elastic faith
and moist possibility, obscenely soft,
an attempt to cancel his doubt

for now he molds her,
turning her this way
and that - folding Anna into herself
the firm, slow stroke
of a master artist

he pulls her out again
did she murmur?
he waits for the moment her bones become clay
his clay
waiting for the moment he can believe.

Paige

3

haiku

2012-02-16T07:18:00.000-08:00

trapped
she rides stormy waves
trembling

magpietales

haiku

2012-02-13T15:31:00.000-08:00

fallen night
frosted windowpane
memories

paige

Hheights

Patience to Love by

2012-01-25T10:31:00.000-08:00

She slips into her bubble of sacrifice;
maintaining an aura of unearthly patience.
Touching his core, she genuflects to entice.
She slips into her bubble of sacrifice.

Strong hands lumber across her landscape, twice.
With an awesome love he wrecks her emotional fence.
She slips into her bubble of sacrifice;
and maintains an aura of unearthly patience.

Paige

prompts: the mag and threewordwednesday

II

2012-01-22T15:57:00.000-08:00

Scent of lilac tip-
toes into my soft well
echoes dusk fall

paige

haiku-heights

heart

2011-12-28T18:09:00.000-08:00

old skin demolished
transformed to his will
my heart's resolution
forever breeds love.

Paige

3

Christmas 6

2011-12-10T20:44:00.000-08:00

Be Calm and of Good Spirit.

Heart and Soul

2011-12-03T17:49:00.000-08:00

The flock hears her voice,
the sweetest, shy feather
tunneling down their souls,
firm with love.

Paige

Yummy one pot Vege. meal

2011-11-29T21:34:00.000-08:00

Fresh string beans, dice white turnips
Dice 3 parsnips, season: salt&pepper, ms. dash,
Gravy: red wine, butter, scallions, slices of
yellow pepper, beef broth, bacon drippings.
Top with fresh parsley and crumbled bacon.

Paige

Soul Inspired

2011-11-22T19:04:00.000-08:00

My faith stumbled
He caught me
Held me, until I filled
With His Love
My soul ignited.

Paige

taste

2011-11-12T20:41:00.000-08:00

...lips of praise, taste like rosewater

paige 11.11

sixw/sat.

soft-petal sleep

2011-11-02T17:53:00.001-07:00

jerked by her
punctured heart, she slept upon
a carnage of rose petals.

Paige 11.2.11

three3

Breached Heart

2011-10-19T14:06:00.000-07:00

Her tentative love,
Sprinkling gentle embers
Has breached his frozen heart.

Paige 10.19.11

ThreeWW

Papier

2011-10-16T19:40:00.000-07:00

Transparent lover
Breathes sonnets on my believing heart
I'll be your mercy
You become my grace.

Paige 10.16.11

onesingleimpression

2011-10-13T17:08:00.001-07:00

Purpose me
Light me a revelation
I'm yours

Paige 10.13.11

River of Love

2011-10-09T14:43:00.000-07:00

lazy love flows
into me
belling my
hopeful heart
gentle love
washes
away anger
and dismay
quiet love
fills me
love
ripples
from above
sweetest
love

Paige 10.9.11

onesingleimpression

lovethenight 'ku

2011-10-07T19:58:00.000-07:00

vital
nights moisten
dawn

Paige 10.7.11

tender heart

2011-10-05T20:41:00.000-07:00

loves impact
ejects negativity
renders the heart tender

Paige 10.5.11

*

2011-10-02T17:58:00.001-07:00

his word
trembles in my mouth
completes me

Paige10.2.11

osi

At last

2011-09-30T21:30:00.000-07:00

Your face a skylight
I long to rest under
Your cool voice
quenches my deep thirst
My humble heart, at last,
overflows with Joy.

Paige 9.30.11

Journeys End: Autumn

2011-09-24T17:45:00.000-07:00

the tree shimmers
in various forms of undress

a modest striptease of gold
emerald and scarlet

the rain has ended and yet
sweet earth continues to confess:

tales of first graders' lost pencils,
teens' fallen homework and young

girls' hot tears over summer boy
friends who've now forgotten their

verbal love-making beneath a
cloudless sky

Paige 9.24.11

my heart's first love

2011-09-22T18:35:00.000-07:00

I've become night unfolding,
an enduring beauty

into
the arms of Your embrace.

made perfect by the light of
stars, filled with points of light
each point smitten with
the face on one angel:

my first love.

Paige 9.22.11

: }

2011-09-19T19:36:00.000-07:00

filled with grace
my smile made whole
amen

Paige 9.19.11

Betrayal

2011-09-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

While I kept silent
He and his crow gathered 'round
Her heart blacker still
Stung by his lack of remorse,
He continues to feed on my pain

Paige 9.18.11

onesingleimpression

mercy

2011-09-12T18:30:00.001-07:00

precious mercy
unfolds in my life
sweet incense fills
the chapel
of my mind.

Paige 9.12.11

we are magical

2011-09-10T19:13:00.000-07:00

on sunless days
the heart turns to flesh then back
again to joy

Paige 9.10.11

burgeon

2011-09-08T20:28:00.000-07:00

the ink of His word
blooms flowers in my spirit
i want for naught

Paige 9.8.11

grace

2011-09-07T11:40:00.000-07:00

I will rejoice
in life's small joys,
faith centered in my heart
never erodes ~
grace is added, observed
then multiplied for good.

Paige 9.7.11

threewordwednesday

life

2011-09-05T20:15:00.000-07:00

hope
salt of
our daily manna

Paige 9.5.11

flutter

2011-09-04T15:29:00.000-07:00

butterfly house
reckless flutter
girls chat-up boys

Paige 9.4.11

windmills

2011-09-03T13:21:00.000-07:00

windmills flow
in the breeze of our love
his mouth there

Paige 9.3.11

haiku-heights

desire under another name

2011-09-02T20:30:00.000-07:00

gravity
grazes the surface, pulls
as does my heart

pulling memories
like hope:
unadorned and faithful

Paige 9.2.11

love and magical kisses

2011-09-01T19:27:00.000-07:00

a faithful lover
lives in her golden bowl
places magical kisses
on hearts
formerly cold

Paige 9.1.11

notes on irene ---

2011-08-31T16:16:00.000-07:00

trees mumble deep
penetrate this great house
drag our dreams down

Paige 8.31.11

'ku

2011-08-30T16:33:00.000-07:00

blue heart
of the flame still breathing
from last night

Paige 8.30.11

reBirth

2011-08-27T17:22:00.001-07:00

rain fills me
with the spirit of truth
my flesh pales

Paige8.27.11

Can I ?

2011-08-25T19:08:00.000-07:00

I'm indigo edgy
on a shaky bridge called trust
Ex-lover returns

Paige.8.25.11

Confess

2011-08-24T15:43:00.000-07:00

lie down and confess
then relax and glide in forgiveness
adapt to inner strength

Paige.8.24.11

past, past.

2011-08-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

give me your ashes
I will spin them into light
the past is cleansed

sunday whirl

Paige 8/22

benediction of kisses

2011-08-21T12:04:00.000-07:00

Your hands cover my face.
This nervous heart flutters.
My mouth is captured in deep gulps.
I feel your heart murmuring prayers.
You draw out my tongue, and I am death-still.

sleeping faith

2011-08-20T05:32:00.000-07:00

her soul is crying
her flesh thirsts
no one can tell her the words
to the song she's lost.
this mouth that trembles with sighs ...

Amethyst shadows

2011-08-19T15:28:00.000-07:00

lilac
scent deepens
filtered light
deep shadows
amethyst chains
dress my being
ball gown puddles
cool mouth
quieted protests
dusk

Forecast

2011-08-18T08:29:00.000-07:00

clouds cradle rain
precious tears ~
sustenance for the
earth of my soul.

stay.

2011-08-17T22:47:00.000-07:00

gasping into mute dawn,
my lover's hands become
a viable remedy to loneliness.