the floor stretches before me black and white checkerboard tile feet glide soundlessly to the waltz in my head my arms arched as if partnered but empty silent transparent forms swirl around me lost in the dance do they know I wonder that they are behind the veil? perhaps it only matters to me left … Continue reading Waltz of Spirits – Christine E. Ray
This autobiographical fragment from my first year of grad school in the early 1990s may be triggering for some readers. It frankly addresses suicidal ideation. I stand in front of the open window of my one bedroom apartment in my building which is simply named “Graduate Tower B.” The building is as generic, as bland, … Continue reading Here I Stand – Christine E. Ray
bare skin glides against my rough edges like warm sand you buff my contours smooth mouth tracing the trail of my vertebrae you become cartographer of my ridges and valleys before breathing electricity along my spine bold fingertips find the places I ache work me like clay patiently loosen the knots I have tied myself into until … Continue reading Saturday Afternoon Poetry
his broken halo still gleamed dull gold his haunted eyes a kaleidoscope of all that he had seen I could taste the loss in his tears the weariness written on his skin like ancient runes but there was hope in his kiss that made me wonder if I could be his salvation at least for … Continue reading Broken Angel
knowing pours over me an ice cold waterfall that leaves me stripped bare pink raw pieces of the woman I used to be washed away like chalk drawings in the relentless flow illusion of control of mastery over my life my body my mind erodes dissolves streams over a rocky cliff to a deep well … Continue reading Erosion – Christine E. Ray
We were more than fingerprints brushed across each other’s wrists we loved recklessly and deeply dipped our hands into our souls pulled out everything we were before leaving our marks across each other’s bodies I had never seen you more beautiful than you were with my handprint caressing your cheekbone shimmering across your heart © … Continue reading Marked – Christine E. Ray
Brave & Reckless 