little thoughts, words, phrases that come to my mind throughout the day


and i scramble to write them down praying i don't forget a single one


words of love and wishing intermingle


with words of disappointment and mistaken hope


written out in pen, with its occasional ink blots


as they come to life, jump out from the pages and play before me


in a fantasy of rhyme and reason


paper tigers sneakily hunt the prey, a writer's imagination

02/01/2002