Poetry
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PoetryUnopened
There is a tumble of ribbons and words forming bows and twirls, wrapping my thoughts into pretty little packages. I line them up one…
PoetryQuietus
He’s old now, very old living in a recliner reading his favorite book about death feeling like an eaglet in a treetop nest curious…
PoetrySafe Text
She wondered how an old boyfriend spent New Year’s Eve, if he was there with his wife being nice, or maybe mean saying her…
PoetryResolving Reality
New Year, resolutions rising from reverie running outdoors with a smile singing and skipping into very concrete streets resolve to pay credit card bills,…
PoetryWaymarkers
Today I stop to photograph a backroad milestone which reclines in fescue and rough dandelions. The miles ahead, the miles behind. Simple numbers all…
PoetryRaphael
the Archangel with the power to heal, hovers over the roof of my house. He’s been up there since you left. I went to…
PoetryEthnic Cleanser
Removes unsightly people whose grease and dirt spoil your landscape. Cleans as it polishes, replaces their awful smell with fresh fragrances. Their profane beliefs…
Poetrya tale of two poets and a boy from the Bronx
Henry was brilliant; at least he had me believing he was. He read at the Coffee and Cruellers, the place with the sawdust and…
PoetryMy Father Dreams of Ships
My father remembers ancient banyan trees. He sees ghosts in the tall temple grass, smells rain on abandoned sugar cane. He watches the ocean…
PoetryDo Not Resuscitate
He was positive at 96 approved for hospice care on O2 and morphine to make labored breathing comfortable. His last thought was walking from…
