Nonfiction

Relates her story

as the audience resounds

fiction it assumes.

On duty

Unknown and unseen

is a silent spectator,

the well-trained sniper.

Disappointment

His heart was scalding,

a burn as second-degree,

where the daughter stomped.

As time goes by,

A secure living,

an insecure social life—

the gifts of old age.

Chance

Deny though she does

a one-way ticket to hell

her first raffle was.