Only the three as the golden eyes touch, Only the two who have loved far too much, Only the one who will come from the flames After it's over remaining the same...

I feel fragile like that spun-glass faerie with her gossamer wings, caught in the still silence of the eye of the hurricane...

I can still smell her perfume in the bedroom. I don't know why-I've had everything washed, and I paid money I didn't have to scour the carpet for some last vestige of her. Maybe her smell lingers in the walls. Maybe I should have the walls painted...

I looked at two pictures taken of me before performances, and remembered. Ballet was my life for so long, it's hard to put seven years of dreams behind me...

A piece I did for my creative writing class when asked to write about my childhood. Thoughts upon first coming to America. Not happy. Certainly not patriotic. You've been warned.

A piece I did for my creative writing class when asked to write about my childhood. The kitchen table back in Moscow, Mama making coffee, and why I became a storyteller...

A young woman, fresh with the pain of divorce, escapes to her childhood haven and remembers a nearly magical figure from her past. A modern fairy-tale.

Ayumi Hamasaki fans, rejoice! A good transliteration of the most awesome single, ''Seasons'' is finally at hand! The meaning isn't much altered, but it rhymes and fits, so it can be sung karaoke-style in English!

Angel lives in what is becoming a perfect world, where everything is controlled. But he doesn't expect a mysterious girl tied to his heart to make him doubt the principles of his world...

A dark look at life, and how even in a game where millions play, there are no winners.

I'm a singer. It is what I do, and this is something I feel when I'm onstage. Sometimes the lights make me wonder, am I real?

A poem written for a friend-not that she'll ever read it. I feel so bad for her after every break-up with that good-for-nothing she dates, and well...

A ditty that came, literally, out of nowhere. It is, as usual, dark and difficult to understand, but I think somewhat appealing...

Something of a companion to "Angels Without Wings", but it stands alone. It's very dark.

A sweet little song I wrote for a little girl who I love very much. It's very sweet!

The lyrics to one of the first songs I wrote. It's all about love and how sometimes, maybe, it CAN last forever...

Rating for adult issues. A poem about how I feel almost every day. And you thought I was happy...

A short poem with an interesting look at a loveless relationship... also a companion of a sort to one of my other fics called ''Who We Are''.