Broken Toes

Watch where you stand

you might step on my toes

and not even know it

for i'd bite my tongue off

to keep you smiling

Sand

I am a grain of sand

On a beach

Among my kind.

Waves lapping at my sides

There are people around me

Happy. Laughing.

Smiling with their picturesque families.

Building Castles of my friends.

Only to have waves

wash it back

And surround me again.

Hair

Blonde in a soft cascade
She grins up from the
stool on the front
of a picture
I remember 8th grade
She is one of my truest
and longest lived friends
She wants me to capture
her in a poem
but i'm not sure i can
so i will only capture
her hair
Blonde in a soft cascade

Corsage

This fickle little child

With her simple little mind

Can't understand

Her lack of commitment

She gives up the man

And all that they had

With only the fear

Of abandonment

A flower at her wrist

He asks her to wear

As she sits below him

Mussing her hair

When in truth she worries

Of the time to come

She only tells him "No,

I want to have fun."

But he doesn't know

What the flower represents

Men's waning love

As it now lays dead.

She paints bright beauty

On the face of friends

And dances the night away

Thinking only of him.

The Mountain in Pennsylvania

On the mountain

There is a spot

Always sunny

Even as it rains

Rainbow mists

And green

I would live there

If it weren't Pennsylvania

Seattle

The constellation of beacons
From buildings and streetlamps
Makes a network of light and music
The cacophony of celebration
in the city of my home

Banshee Brenna

Children crowd around a man with an Irish lilt as he tells a story.

Narrator

Once in Eire there was a man and a woman who were wed. One day, coming back from the market, the woman, Brenna, caught her husband, Ian, in bed with another woman.

Cut to room in castle, man and woman in bed

Brenna

(enters with groceries, sees scene)Oh lord.

Ian

(struggles out of bed while trying to cover his nakedness) I swear, nothing happened!

Prudence

(laughs)Sure

Brenna

(looks at Prudence) This may be a bit of a surprise, but I do not want see you, Prudence. Why don't you live up to your name and leave?

Prudence

For what its worth…

Brenna

It's worth nothing. Get out (Prudence retrieves clothes and leaves) Would you care to explain?

Ian

Brenna, I swear, nothing happened.

Brenna

Liar. Get out.

Ian

Brenna..

Brenna

Get out! He leaves, she begins to cry

cut to Narrator

Narrator

So enraged was she that she pulled out the heart of Ian and threw it into the river where it turned to icy stone like her own heart. She became a BanShee, a screaming woman, and killed all men who dared enter, turning their loves into BanShees like herself.

(continues as V-O)

As the years went by a village grew around her castle. There was a young man in the village named Aidan. He was strong and honest and pitied the BanShee for her plight and anger at her husband. Wishing to ease her suffering, he went up to the castle.

Aidan

Brenna, May I speak with you?

Brenna

(off camera) And what do you call what you're doing now?

Aidan

Brenna, I've come to prove that not all men are like your husband.

Brenna

(on camera and in front of him) And how will you do that?

Aidan

Follow me for a day and you'll see.

Narrator

(voice over)So intrigued was she that she agreed and followed him around the village. First to his mother's house to bring her the cloak she need.

Aidan

Ma, I've asked Brenna to follow me, how can I prove that not all are like Ian?

Mother

Just be yourself and go about your business, she will see.

cut to Narrator

Narrator

And so he did, first to Mary Catharine's cottage to give her the herbs she'd need for her grandmother's back, then to Maeve's to give her the food she'd asked him to get so she could tend to her father, then to Darcy to give her flowers so she would feel better about the loss of her beau, and on and on through the village till at last his hands were empty and every one in need had been satisfied.

cut to Aidan & Brenna in front of his house

(Narrator continues as voice over)

Now at about Darcy, Brenna had begun to feel a bit jealous and sat pouting and feeling neglected in the way woman will sometimes do to make a man feel guilty. Aidan saw this and began to feel a bit worried,

Aidan

Is something wrong, Brenna?

Brenna

How is it all those women have gotten something from you and I haven't?

Aidan

Is there anything you'd like? (Brenna shakes her head) Well, when you know what you want, be sure to tell me. goes in side

Narrator

(voice over)

And he went home and to bed and woke the next morning to see her at his door

Aidan

Well then, Do you know what you want? (Brenna nods) And what would that be?

Brenna

Your heart (tries not to cry, Aidan gathers Brenna in his arms)

Aidan

If that all, I can't give you something you already have.

Cut to Narrator

Narrator

And Banshee Brenna was a Banshee no more.