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PoetryCharlie Goes to New Castle
Got a little blue when the band started playing easy tunes remember Ciarán when we were young, wasting away energies happy days come, gone…
PoetryBaba Yaga, a Twisted Ghazal
I am Baba Yaga, a hag, a toothless blend of wrong and right. I fear only the knights known as Morning Evening and Night.…
PoetryTwo Poets
I'm torn between two poets: one yearns for the scent of bread and the other longs for soup; the bomb crater is a fireless…
PoetryThe Love Death Cannot Touch
I never knew what to say until the next spring when my child couldn’t wait to tell me the spot we buried his favorite…
PoetryTribute from a Wooden Hut
I was here on the cliff at glan-y-mor, his reverie. Below, the boathouse, washed a pastel shade of lemon doused by sea mists of…
PoetryStrand #1: Abstractions
Silence My heartbeat outpaces the wall clock, the coffee maker exhales, old rain drips in the downspout, the dog wags her tail in her…
PoetryPay rate sucks, but
out the cafeteria window of this skyscraper on the edge of lower Manhattan, I can see the waters below, waves and foams serpentine behind…
PoetryAfterlife
1. Afterwards, we asked the mystery and were told nothing but starlight. It spoke to the hinge of small bones where memory reverses, the…
Photography, PoetryCoastal Epiphanies
Clouds so low they move against themselves in parallax, putty gray on an icy blue. The boat moves too on top of inky waves…
PoetryMourning In Five Parts
1. The bullets of your absence left holes in the flesh of the sky. 2. I cannot enjoy the status of grief - it…
PoetryThe Nature of Your Emergency
Call 911 she said her chest felt like a siren blare, I’m scared, we’re there atop the landing. She’s climbed the stairs she couldn’t…
PoetryDay Trip with Dog
My dog & I set out for a mountain lake ringed by pine trees. There were ducks preening in the water. Some of them…