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PoetryJohnny the Cat
tomorrow i'm gonna carry a casket the body of a kid I once raced in a long ago summer in San Jose high school…
Poetry, PoetryPrelude in E Minor or Milner Place Hoists Sail
We cannot go with you this time All-consuming night has swallowed the solemn moon So hightide and wave retire and the piano charms with…
PoetryLiminal
I wait in a queue at the store to pay for my basket of groceries and I wait for swallowed painkillers to ease my…
PoetryOne of the Many Reasons I Miss You
The backyard is humming with honey bees. The photinia hedge is a mass of clustered, tiny, white flowers. If you were here, I’d tease…
PoetryEARTH LAG
9:00 am flight arrives at an ungodly time 2 hours behind. jet lag. earth lag. got to my hotel room but the card doesn’t…
PoetryMom Called
The breeze I ignored up in the attic is a dust devil dancing down the stairs a swirl of intent heading havoc to the…
PoetryJAWIN’ WITH THE WIND
jawin’ with the wind I just said I love you to her but was talkin’ to someone else the wind knows that blowin’ me…
Poetry, PoetryBirds of Florida
As kids we saw hundreds of brown pelicans on pilings asleep like students at a lecture. Wading through Crystal Springs, we found fossils:…
PoetryApprehension
She catches him up and tells him how much they all miss that laconic delivery, enthusing about the open mic at the Abbey Café…