Francine Walls

She was the best mom. In hard times, she’d put a Bible under my pillow so words of comfort mingled with my dreams. (Fear not, for I bring...

we must find a new home. Five billion years  — the earth falls into the sun’s embrace and will not let her go. Our species needs five...

The shrine within me. Dew on the blades of grass shines on my dream lake. A feather drifts by, aimless wanderer stop here. Oh, it is a...

the dead must be washed, every part, to stand before God clean. Hands bound, feet bound, the child lies on the ground, the skull too big...

(“I found within me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus ) messed up, squandered your money. You have destroyed your health, & you bristle...

look carefully around, then worry. It can scuttle over land. Longer than a car, it squeezes  through an orange-size hole.  The beak?  In...

I am turned to ash I want you knowing that I hear your footfalls in the ancient forest, the scream of hawks, the water crazy-mad flowing...

Ignition on, the key worn down almost straight now, on the dashboard, a pack of Camels lying on maps among rock samples and tufts of...

tosses off colors, swirling, a flutterance – no thought of loss or want or farewell, brilliance for a shilling or a dime or naught...

You are trapped in the gyre, drifting in the ocean without oxygen in a mass the size of Texas. You can escape. Lean close. You must throw...