More a poem than a house

It’s the chunky – clunky - clacky sound of the chain pulling the roller coaster up the track - anticipation and doubt - (Will we make it? Will we make it?). Time stops at the top - joy and fear - gravity (that bandit) tries to steal my stomach; hands up and scream! My heart pounds in its cage as we enter the shadowed valley and I remember Newton’s third law, and the Lord’s Prayer. Into the light, effortlessly, the car goes up again; we round the corner; the wooden trestle groans and complains (a… Continue

Black graphite and polished steel, the floor is slick and dangerous; crouching in the far corner, a pride of many colored tigers with metal tails that point straight up and lick the electric ceiling. I tiptoe toward the red one but a sneakered boy beats me to it (he knows, as I do, that the red car is faster than the rest) so I jealously hop in the green one. A sarcastic sign on the wall reads “No Bumping.” I glare at the thief in the red car as the attendant, ever vigilant, double checks our se… Continue

This lovely treat was written by our own sweet Scarlett Rose...

I smell fairy floss in the distance and I see people walking with it in their hands, and I so badly just want…mummy’s words interrupt my thoughts as she turns to me saying, “Not now dear, just wait – Mummy’s a little busy right now.” I look up at her and she isn’t looking at me, a muscley man chopping wood captivates her, and I know how effortlessly I can slip away, so … I flit away amidst arms and legs and bodies of the… Continue

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“Funny,” he said, “you don’t look like a poet.”

I drooled “jus wa dug a hoet loog lig?”

“Spit - you know, flamboyant,” He picked up the drill and waived it in the air, “Open up.”

And I said - to myself, since my mouth was full of picks and probes, suctions and drills - I said “I’m no bereted beatnik, no crimson-lipped goth, and that’s just fine with me. My mouse gray hair and wrinkles allow me to fold up into invisibility, and when I spy a sweet crumb of the human condition I can scurr… Continue