Dream Train

I was on a train

barreling down a tunnel

in a city I have

always lived in 

and the flashes of fluorescence

that permeated the black, dense

memory, sank into an ocean

of last bubbles. 

~

RNH

The Gambler

You risk as if you have nothing

To lose

And so will you, when I do not

Return. 

~

RNH

voyeur

bending the rules feels...
like an option, for you,
the journey itself in the reprieve
of a boundary, decent
once open, the pretense
of a curtain constantly pulled
between your legs.

~

RNH

Cup

We act like there are

no monsters or dragons in our lives,

no imminent dangers or emergencies,

And in this belief,

We feel safe. 

When the monsters and the demons
are in the lies that we tell ourselves,
that we are not strong enough
to defeat them,
And against this fire and claw,
We must fight.

~

RNH

on wings

In the forest between this life and the next

life, we are journeywomen
marking the distance and the place,
and from the galaxy to the right,
where our loved ones wait patiently
to return to us,
the butterflies dance on certain wings.

~

RNH