More Drafts and Excerpts from Verse Novel Series

Jane’s Pain

Struggle lies in her beauty

Her life story sounds like

your favorite movie...

-Prime Clan Sandman

Bulletproof Jane

Her fear

Of happiness,

Will be the only thing

That will stand in her way; and she

Knows it.

—-Prime Clan Sandman

Bulletproof Jane 2

Bulletproof Jane

She never said it

Would be easy at all. She

Just said I love you.

-Nowhere Boy

Games with Jane

We picked our letters

You laid down the first word

You smiled;

I knew then you would be

My wife.

-Nowhere Boy

Amends to Jane

Forgive me if we

got lost in my quest to seek

the intangible.

The end is too valuable

to leave to the practical

—Nowhere Boy

The Night Before...

She said “I swear to you I do

not need clarification from you at all. Please; you just keep

packing.”

Oddly enough, it’s her groundless

empathy that strengthens me.

There’s no time to dread;

stranger things ahead.

Instead of turning away, I

need to spend my last day with her. Interstellar travels weigh

on her.

I tried to tell her, I want to

stay. If I could teleport I would be there for her and our

little

cosmic comet every day.

If I knew I could stay and aid in bringing us

A new day

I’d stay.

She said “I swear to you I do

not need clarification from you at all. Please; you just keep

packing.”

She said “I know you aren’t leaving.

You need to find your answers and they lie among dancers in

the stars.

I know it’s not selfish; you told

us that we must unite to fight when darkness calls. You fight for

us all.

—Bulletproof Jane