I came for the benefit of a sick woman this way, I was told and I paused I do not see a sick woman, I said there, look, I was told and I did but I saw no one save a radiant beauty eyes cut from gems sparkling she twisted to rhythm and good vibes …
I came for the benefit of a sick woman this way, I was told and I paused I do not see a sick woman, I said there, look, I was told and I did but I saw no one save a radiant beauty eyes cut from gems sparkling she twisted to rhythm and good vibes …
I can’t believe that my daughter is nearly a month into first grade. It seems like only yesterday that together we took a walk to her future elementary school. She was only three years old then. She sported a Tinker Bell hat atop her head and wore a Cookie Monster backpack – practice for ‘when …
YOURS TO KEEP Little girl you grow before my eyes and the feel of your hand in mine as I walk you to school stills my restless demons; I am far from a perfect man but I live to be flawless in your eyes. Every kiss you bless upon my cheek reminds me that while …
DULLED I need to listen closely— the pain you share should be sharp yet comes delivered dull, spoken at the price of a worn tongue; how it rends me to hear you recall the worst of all you have been; I sit quietly listening to your soft grace betrayed by the broken fragments of your …
SAVIOR Man of Steel why won’t you come down from your perch high above Metropolis save me I have desperately tried to fly in your cape but you left me no field guide and in this world I need to be more than just a hero Do you remember when I gazed upon you with …
I had the opportunity to chaperone my daughter’s kindergarten class trip last week. We visited World of Wings, a great facility featuring a butterfly atrium, rooms filled with creepy-crawly bugs and slithering reptiles (inside their holding tanks, of course), and a whole host of other fun exhibits. But the single attraction that stole the show …
My last January breath rose in a plume to the sky and left me wondering if this would be how my soul would one day escape me, wispy vapored , twanged by fingers of Northeast wind; I suppose I will always be a puppet but the excuse of ‘oh, it will be much warmer tomorrow’ …
I said a prayer in the moments before I saw you that my composure would be steel and yet your utter silence broke me down in ways I never expected. Forgive me, I faltered when taking your still hand into mine and realizing your sleep would be an endless one, began to pity myself. …
Greater than anything I could achieve as a writer, my daughter scored 7 out of 10 ‘red words’ correctly on her kindergarten test. At, my, are, with, me, come, what, you, my, can. Those words are just some of the ‘red words’ she has been learning; the building blocks of language. The keys to reading. …
Yesterday’s Fable Was it just yesterday you told me your time had come? Under a cloudless sky Nothing but myth and unspoken promise between us It was an alabaster lie I realize as much now But I was so blind to my own beliefs That I forgot to realize My faith belongs Only to borrowed …
Joseph A. Pinto 