and gets hung on the curb then, freed by the wind lands in brown weeds beside the big ditch. I kick at a beer can. the houses seem smaller, the neighborhood tired, run...
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large pine trees in a bark beetle free forest after living long lives of capturing carbon & releasing oxygen & having been a home to myriad wildlife...
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I stepped outside my flat I named the bunker and there was a woman bestial with insane eyes surrounded by the trash of her own making syringes toilet paper plastic bottles and a tomato "you really shouldn’t be here" I...
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Glowing

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Flight

"Flight" an acrylic painting on linen.
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mountains with trees under white star at night

my

poems are not meant to impress you. they are written to help me make it thru the night.
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A walk on the beach

...on a very cold morning.
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Should I ..

Should I admit it all started as a pile of phrases and a symmetry fetish? Should I credit nighthawks and traffic in the liner notes? Should I care that all characters...
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I am weeping. Please take my tears. It's all I have left. I lost myself. I don't want to find me either. I am...
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Sometimes I just feel like telling a love story with a happy ending, and none of that conflict that people are told they need...
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“Why don't you write about me!” she wailed from the bed as he sat before his desk, lost in reverie. Without looking up, he replied: “My dear, it is...
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I'll be brief, for we are both busy and the calendar Gods have laid waste to that idyllic peace which, if we're honest, is as foreign to...
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I screech and I hoot and I dance on this morning for sunlight through the windows, clean, cold air and a woman. It seems she’s content to stare...
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what I don’t know could fill volumes… the formula is V = s3 if all of the things I don’t know were stored inside a cube shaped...
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Near the Mexico border in the Chisos Mountains of West Texas they say it is so dark that you can see the entire Milky Way without trying I look...
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in the kitchen of the blacksmith there are only wooden spoons his hand pauses to examine the sky silverware falters tumbles from the clouds and rains across the cindered...
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The Typewriter

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Grace

It is there when a hole in the road accommodates the water that carved it and later, the patch that fills it, when a mango and stone accept their...
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brown sparrow perching on gray branch at daytime

Ghosts

How old was I? I can’t be sure. You know How Time can be; how it Gets stretched, compressed Torn and torched, but I know I was young Trying to...
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I’d hoped the cruise on the Seine would be the highlight, but it wasn’t. Nor was the open top bus tour. We inched up the Eiffel...
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In the Deep Blue

Lacquer on wooden board 23x25cm
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I remember talking to God the conversation left unfinished I got up and went to go about my madness but there was a moment there with Him where my...
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so far we have read the rules in black and white in print meanwhile others translate them in different colors i read your poetry in the rain
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Went to church today. A sanctuary of a few sitting and spread out at the pews in front and behind me. A man at the left corner of the...
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You are not the trees, nor the clouds reflected in a black plate pond. The diving knife breaks the disk pulls the jelly plant: You are not...
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His Coat

His coat of several years— an acoustic blue and thyme puffer morphed into kangaroo pockets. It hordes crumpled store receipts (with barely visible ink), napkins taken from Dunkin Donuts...
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It’s been raining since Christmas yet the water is lower than ever before and there’s a newly revealed rock looks like the hood of...
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I will grow my remaining hair long, and wear slip-on shoes. I will clear a corner in my house, set up an easel, and paint badly. I will...
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he let me sell my poetry books in his comic book shop one day I wandered in to see if any had sold they hadn't Dan, I have...
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I rearranged my books on the shelf today in alphabetical order. Didn't realize how much time had passed on arrangements alone. What about the impatience and shouts coming from...
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Doesn't wanna see the next day As long as his hair and beard Not shaved. Same old sweater. Same old fading jeans. Same Old scent. Same old bad...
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when i am dead will i search for a dead goose’s feather & dip the calamus into a dead fire’s ashes & into a dead beehive’s wax & write a...
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he said he was looking for the light but i thought he said stay with me forever i remember windflowers & the way he crossed his arms behind...
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A small hermit crab walked on her hand, she gently cupped and closed. Hermit crab moved house that day, but still it was a familiar place.
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If hardened eye and calloused hand are able to perceive a rim of gold around a plate, a touch of lace upon a sleeve, and if the rough...
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sunlight glinting off piss
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Enough

Sometimes I think I should stick to fiction. It’s probably easier to remember lies than is it to remember little beads of truth so...
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A man whose heart is a time bomb says leave the house, breathe some fresh air, meet people, take chances. When he was younger he advised all his friends...
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these days these nights a hammer pounds against my head after each death in your sea my tongue is sour neck & back needs twisting no matter how early or late...
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They’re 85 walk daily he holding her hand. She stops frequently transfixed by far off. Fusses with her scarf until she’s done. Even now he watches still smitten.
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Solstice

The moon and I have time tonight to give the year a fair review, to talk about the times that we were bloodied, halved, in hiding, and the...
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stainless steel framed green chairs

I Ask You

If a person flies off a barstool into the open arms of the floor are they not paying the cost for taking a shortcut to love?
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People

Falling in love is like swallowing grains of sand to recover the pebble you skipped across the pond by your childhood home, the ripples setting in motion...
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log pile

slowly it diminishes withdrawing toward the wall and ground each one taken without thinking until before you know it all that is left are the bark scraps and a...
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overlooking city buildings and trees

Penthouse

I had lunch yesterday in an apartment overlooking the neighborhood in which I grew up and now I know how God feels
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Myrna was standing in a long line waiting to checkout when a lady in her early 60’s dropped her cane & it turned out she had the...
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of Cain’s Mayonnaise, circa 1975 Powder blue Porsche both delicate and racy for small town roads speed limit sign, 30 miles per hour certainly restricts this car. Cotton-soft light blue color obscures...
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We’d catch carp in the river put-em on a stringer walk home through the alleys of the boulevard homes throw them over the privacy fences into the backyard pools their bottom sucking mouths still...
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clear glass bottle with yellow liquid inside

Piña Colada

After thinking not too much or too long, I knew I needed to get a job. Mike said so, too, but mostly so he could buy pot and get his parents off his...
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When I look back, I picture a multi-million pound Formula One pit crew, making snap decisions at break-neck speed, but instead of shaving seconds off, this team’s goal...
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Petrichor

There’s a storm already brewing, asphalt waiting for a shine, a string of lights all set to spill and bleed as watercolors only one of us will see. But...
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The past continues to Breathe in me. Occasionally it is kind, Tho often it finds me Breathless. I glance back and small details Come alive, with strange power to wound...
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I don’t wanna talk to anyone I wanna have a conversation with a blackberry bush in summer I’d say, you sure look like you’re thriving and the bush...
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self portrait #2

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yet again

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grayscale photo of bare trees near city buildings

Wonderful

this is a poem about my mother that is what this is about my wonderful mother and how I did not go see her for years because...
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Side effect

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droplets on glass panel

Opening Line

Last night I dreamt of the perfect opening line to a poem that would, I had no doubt, piece back together the crumbling world. It was...
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The SPOTLIGHT EFFECT is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that...
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black typewriter on brown wooden table

since the reading

was for a group of aspiring writers, the host asked me to start off by giving the audience a writing challenge of sorts, something to think about while i was reading. i thought that was...
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my mother combed my hair. i was standing in the kitchen with my friend Stephen (it was always Stephen, never Steve) and we were getting ready to go back out to play. i...
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because god was lonely and everybody loves you when you're six feet underground some say paranoia is a heightened sense of perception but it's another type of...
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Among the litany of lost relics, a Swiss music box tree stand that played O du fröhliche, silver and sent home after the war and a holy rustic doll...
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there is a nice long beach and lovely views out to sea the sea that is rising
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Inmates

The rust-colored brick tenements testify to the city's history, shifting masses of tenants absorbed with daily drudgery, jobs, errands, rendezvous. Inside each apartment, walls of mementos, souvenirs, prizes down the long...
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Ours was the turnaround driveway, the one in which mistaken cars corrected themselves, and zoomed back up the street. My mother said, somebody’s here every time,...
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I’ve been so long writing what has turned into a novella, hate that fucking word, and like, fuck me dead, I just want to...
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Adrian

You have a warm smile You are twenty-six years old You are strawberry blonde like your siblings You have strong shoulders and a six-pack we envy You are...
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Avalon

There can be a lot of waiting, but that's ok, he noted as we leaned into the night and the sky became a window to a thousand seasons past. We...
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Open Arts Press, LLC, has released a new, free broadside of poems by Leeza Simmons Sikes. Download your copy of Bitchy Poems now. Art by Jenn...
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I had a big book of haikus that I lost to homelessness which is a haiku in itself but it hurts too much to write it I cried when...
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saw some alien visitation jizz on unsolved TV    close encounters of the filthy kind   with all-you-can-eat UFO porn   vintage 8mm clips brazilian style pretty pink    pulsating orbs shaky cam zooms     focusing on...
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After bathing in heavy cream, I turn down the covers of my Procrustean bed, “itching” (as the song goes) “like a man on a fuzzy tree” who’s “gonna need...
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The last time I enter this room, pushing past the clothing and the furniture into the landscape of this room, where there is a bed, where there is a rug,...
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something is changing here, so slight it can hardly be noticed. yet it has been.  a feeling, came with the light rain. the quietness. all things are changing.
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Mobile photography, New York, Fall 2022.
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No yellow brick road. It’s fire brick, used for ovens. A walkway cul-de-sac not a scenic drive. Buttons of every size, shape, color & un-Aryan creed. Stored like ashes in giant...
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Stuff tulips in your mouth Don't deny your heritage Dutch girl. If you have intelligence, sadness and an innocent face I stick to you. What I see: The emperor's...
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Oil paint on Ampersand Gessobord panel, 3mm uncradled - 54cm x 30cm
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find the chosen pathways watch the birds and wild flowers grow below the scene plays out with wildlife as punctuation
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There were a thousand stars reflected in a schist rock bowl of rain. One of them was mercy though you claimed you didn't know which. You stirred them...
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fear of this and that of nothing in particular that no one else  will understand
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While asleep on my back, fingers jitter, type a worrisome montage of scenes, beginning with a fall from a harp player’s sky to an ocean of sharks, a parachute,...
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  Spotlight effect
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growing up rough

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things i haven’t done since primary school eaten tapioca pudding with rose hip syrup asked a girl the color of her knickers won a competition for who...
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Too Sexy

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The Book of Unknowing 1 What is this scrim between Music and the self? Who is incarcerated for The crime of lucidity? 2 How does one expunge The soul’s bile? What is this...
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STAND

They will come if you conjure them into existence, if you sneer at them and tell them, directly, how stupid they are, if you insult them they...
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It takes a lifetime to press. And there's no atonement but for the very rebellion of being in the flesh, I've seen birds hang so heavy. You were here, it happened. Your...
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white 3 bladed ceiling fan

Alone

this silence is better soft sounds of the keyboard the gale winds and rain stop subtle whispering of the ceiling fan birds gone to roost and no trucks on...
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the fifer piping long around the main street and also the kathunk of a truck crossing the coleman, today is the reckoning of sadness,...
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Still I Cry

I didn’t replace you, girl. I did clean the blood your body left after the cancer came on, a slow crawl. Then quick. Like you were bit by...
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dinner boys are unnecessary to window a past of shed snakeskins hushed of meat everyone leaves on last-laugh ships tricky grandfathers too when the wilderness returns & the time of...
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white ceramic mug with coffee

Regret

“The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.” Wayne Dyer I have put pen to much that I ought not have written, including,...
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The Self Portrait

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Wabbit with isographs

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.untitled.

is your head clear today, loose limbs, while mild air floats above. will you go the other way, as you did yesterday?
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persons left hand on black textile

Pain of the sex

One. The burden to carry other, to make it all right. I take my prejudice hard rather have it punched down the drain, things and events cream and licorice,...
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In this life, we met

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do you like majik ?

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the black rose of poverty smells like the money you wanna ask your parents for old leftover refrigerated pizza the leather of a wallet there's no point...
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Makeup

Once in a while on a weeknight I’d scrape up a few bucks to get a couple beers at the corner bar. I’d never talk to anyone, just sit and...
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Mm, Mm, Good

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Moon, I've lost my shadow. Three friends are here, ready to drink and dance, as Zhongba temple bells toll. My pilgrimage took me past a village whose only...
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Days before the flames, I flailed and freaked in your arms at the front door of our friends’ home. I was one, my sister, seven. No one knew...
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https://youtu.be/HyZIvnkkaxc?feature=share
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shallow focus photo of washing machines

The Color of Color

doesn’t matter darks whites or colors the lint screen is always gray
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Us

You, at home where sea and sand negotiate, where troposphere and tower fit like puzzle pieces; I, a rougher sketch of you, a stranger in the...
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unceremoniously

a dear friend recently died unexpectedly voluntarily taking with him some of our pain and most of the answers leaving us with all the grief
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Midwife to spirits, you call for water, circle the chairs, position the planchette, your fingers soft on old mahogany. The grace of touch - oh, how we dead mourn...
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but don’t tell me I must leave, I must let go. You frighten me, the one I treasure, the one who holds my hand. Why are you so...
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.noted.

there have been a couple of incidents but now she is in disguise with different hair
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Sleepless Nights

Abstract | 16 x 12 Cm | On Paper | 2022    
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mer.made # 1D

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Thuggery

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Shrewing

as she got old everything turned into something to fuss about upset till the end died trying to decide coffin or cremation
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my brain matter is worth 7 bucks read me on kindle and I’m worth even less my frustration is fourteen cents prolly my longing is a bright...
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yellow flower field during daytime

Us

There was a fork in the road, and I chose properly. The path ahead was beautiful, full of love, but the love was elusive. Blablabla...
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There are mornings when "Good Morning America" wakes me up and I don't need to open my eyes to know you're still not home * There are mornings when we stand in the...
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Bone yellow light from a forty watt bulb warms stale air and clings to the skin of my funeral coat. My starched cotton shirts carry dust on their shoulders. Hung on...
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Mannequin Series #3

Digital Art
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Across from the fried-egg fug and clatter of the café a woman stands ironing in the big bay window of a first floor flat. It's a wet November day and...
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why do you come to me in this satanic moonlight? you who were the red balloons of summer. you who were every love song I sang...
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Upon My Return

The neighborhood will be an old body whose cells have turned over. Long dormant ghosts will animate like leaves beneath a passing car. No one will collect fiberglass...
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A homeless man begs. His cardboard sign, written in crimson— the world’s out of balance, Armageddon is nigh. Without being seen huge mountains of ice roll in the ocean and then disappear. An...
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Intense Emotions

Abstract | 16 x 12 Cm | On Paper | 2022
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she was drawn again yesterday with her sibling though it did not look quite right so shall i tear the sister off?
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Part 1   Part 2 Part 3
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rolled by a beetle over your sky, everyday. Cover your eyes in kohl against this young gods glare. Inhale cinnamon oil smoothed into warm skin. He tells you there is...
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Hey, Because I dropped my phone in the water and learned that sleeping masks are not tripods, I'm writing this in my notebook, sitting at...
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Never mind "unnatural"! Natural is sold at supermarkets wrapped in non-recyclable plastic. Wrapping. Don’t get me started. My rooster can stand on one leg or spondaic goosestep to a...
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woman standing inside room

RED HOT

my hands through your red hair give me 3rd degree burns
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                                             I have...
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because my dog is odd. At first, I thought he was probably autistic or maybe broken by abuse from a previous owner & then I read that his breed is...
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woman in white top wearing eyeglasses

her mouth

was a ruined white flower. she had to be 80 or more, but she stood there, in the back of the room, while i read my poems to a couple of dozen students who only looked...
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Migration

Each day I grow colder. The sun calls my name but I have no will to answer. The people on my street crane their necks and point upward. Diabetes has...
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I’d rather be a large cat— leopard or jaguar. No arguments with a spouse. Marriage isn’t a thing. Kill when pissed-off. Eat the offender. Lick myself handsome, before the prowl. Squat, claim...
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I wear my mother’s pendant some days Not my style, really, gemstones bunched into a bouquet dainty I prefer heavy or nothing at all I feel silly, wary femininity does not...
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Instinct

The hammock is hung between aspen and oak which means one day logic will flutter its pretty fingers and fall on its head. Our rescue dog sleeps nose to...
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brown lion lying on green grass

“Son…

man is a quick machine a dangerous machine a tricky-powerful slick machine but not always,” said the lion between bites.
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January 1, 2022: fly like a buffly, sting like a bee! December 31: dropped on the bed like a wacked fly, stung by reality of the wind blows that yell, Get...
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for this world. I say, “I’m not, but I try to be.”
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I sat in our small kitchen, one warm summer morning waiting for the call the rest of the family went out of town for a couple...
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brown wooden letter t-letter

Woe Is Me

I have nothing to complain about but I still do. I’m working on getting better about that but it ain’t easy when raised living is grumbling about how life is always out to getcha
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sea waves under sunset

After the Visit

Go back to that place where just below the view of Holmes Bay, with its seal's back island, its lobster pots and birds, there is a windowsill with aquamarine...
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white padded armchair near glass window

Divine Sequence

I am the one who has been abandoned by God in this bedroom, the window shut.
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red lit candle

That Cemetery Cold

adds an extra jumper, adds early to bed, early to rise so no light lost. Candlemaker winter small heat on raw palms. Careful flame does not wander burn this shelter...
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Ogling at an image of a four foot wide ‘All natural’ megabum while queuing in the supermarket sensational real life can only be featured on the front page of a magazine where an 83-year-old woman can have incredible sex with a...
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“Excuse me,” he said, interrupting his guest to reach into the sky and tap, gently, twice. “That star has been bothering me all night. Now, you were saying?”
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Dear Dan, I miss you. I see you puffing so much at cigarettes you could push a sailboat with your breath. You'll die of cancer...
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stainless steel fork on green labeled can

Headliner

currently I am unavailable to press through the current events of the day the wife of Britain’s ex-prime minister was caught in a dress someone claimed unbecoming of funeral...
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the neighbor next door is crying wailing really I can’t do anything about it but say it’s ok even though she can’t hear me and it’s not
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edges

everything — even love — seems to have an edge to which all gravitate till it's reached — only to curve below, under — to wither never quite alive —...
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pink and yellow flowers in tilt shift lens

perennials

some pains of the heart never dissipate but rather sow themselves within the landscape of the mind as perennials of regret and remorse
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There are things that exist between places but never in places. Where you start and where you arrive will contain none of these.
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She screams at me over the telephone telling me I’ll be responsible for her death somehow it’s become my fault that she keeps her crack in a suitcase under the stairs he screams at me because...
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my Papap is sick and in the hospital he’s 95 I can call to talk to him we’ve never known what to say to each other it might be time...
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writing a good poem about sex is like cheating on my wife without having an affair
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red plant leaf with water droplets on the ground

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autumn rain... I try not to be afraid of eternity
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Distant boys sing from distant hills. Not rice but raisins are thrown and the stones that lead are paved with lemon. I'm not sauer. Daffodils are on my head you carry...
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there’s a pain in my gut just below my chest where the whole world has blown up I am all that’s left which is only rubble
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opened refrigerator filled with bottles

summer heat

even the fridge is struggling pumping & gurgling frantically
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man and woman sitting on bench facing sea

Empty Seat

Soon I will be going to a family reunion without part of my family, which makes “reunion” more like Lewis Carroll’s unbirthday party. A man who looks like my...
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in your dusty faded photograph you finally look like a man who killed himself you have now left us with that you murdered yourself and in your own way us too
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October Wind

I pretend for a moment that I understand something anything at all Then try to explain it to myself following the infinite thoughts that led me to this imagined...
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i dreamt people thought i was dead and naked waitresses served them at my wake when i woke and listened to the news i believed them war         famine                 pestilence the fourth...
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silhouette of three performers on stage

performance

well penned words on a page not unlike well trained actors on a stage
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man wearing black fedora hat and black suit jacket

6:09 a.m.

one day this poem woke up homeless it moved its shadow across the street but nothing else changed birds flew overhead traffic moved along the past on its way to the...
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cloudy sky at daytime

Happy Things

I wish I could write happy things, stuff about daisies, moonlight, a first kiss, or a mid-life lover, the greeting card stanzas that warm us like a puppy or a big furry cat laying in our...
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according to webMD for three weeks every month women prefer men with feminine features as they are more likely to be committed and nurturing for one week...
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He needed nothing for Christmas but fishing was in his blood Just to feel the sea breeze the smell of the water the pull on the line The last...
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photography of Cinema

4:48 a.m.

condemned to die but in the meantime we can watch free movies
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glacier mountains during day

what is

looking at the mountain with its stationary stare and seemingly vacant thought it is tempting to assume absolute ignorance a mere feature within a mute landscape but this could be wisdom at its purest this lack of a need to express what is
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shark and two fishes wall graffiti

In Defense

There is a shark in the bath water, a frightening fin making late night calls titled, “Bye-Bye America.”    We listen, but the dialogue is scripted in...
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One day when I was fourteen watching TV in our basement alone my father who could do everything it seemed design buildings rebuild car engines make his own bow arrowheads...
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man walking on desert

eulogy for Dean

Dean wrote his heart out often out of his mind hitchhiking the back roads riding along with any muse who stopped to pick him up safety be damned he was not afraid to bail on an indulgent poem careening across the page or...
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black and silver fountain pen

I need

mounds of paper, pens that never run out of ink to write, write watch squirrels bend low branches, bend not break, my back bends over the desk kink in my shoulder the...
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Dear Jame, you're right in the other room but in this sickness you are very far. the angels are tickling me. i have the Phillies...
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BUTTS

all I can do is go outside with a cigarette when my wife is on the phone talking about hurricanes and how much we’re in debt I sit there nervously puffing away I keep...
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.O.

day of small things, slowly steadily worked as we rest the dust motes, shine as gold.  
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round black and gold-colored Brietling chronograph watch

Moments

I look at my watch, its round deadpan face. The second hand helps move the first. Without it it’s harder to tell time is passing.
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two white and black birds on white sand during daytime

The Beach

fallen leaves cover the ground bird on a branch looking everywhere two birds on the beach searching the sands for something to eat a woman comes to the...
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white textile on white textile

The Last Breath

The last breath are words that share a heavy weight with those few words that are impossible to comprehend meaning both everything and nothing a finality beyond final It seems there...
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I think I’m going to want to kill myself so I can call the suicide hotline and have someone to talk to
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underwater photo

1 Star Rating

The heart has a stone— the weight of its master tied to it going down to the sea depth. We are given a double dare— a dagger, daring...
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closeup photo of USA flag

The Emigrant

America’s fucked I want to go to America I can’t get to America If I get to America they won’t let me back I can’t stay here I’m fucked At...
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ascend the mountain gathering descend the mountain scattering
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I had to light a second cigarette I was too anxious science says smoking makes you more anxious screw science I know what calms me down I pictured our rickety old waitress coming out saying you...
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Words circle an elusive center of meaning as wolves searching for warmth stalk fires on the coldest night of the year and aurora borealis dances in awe of...
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brown wooden blocks on white surface

mycribso

mycribso closetoyo urcoffinIb arelyhadro omtobreathe
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landscape photography of desert

Empty Metaphors

post-menopausal my feet get cold really, very cold so i bought a pair of fleece woven house boots soft rubber memory soles made in Iceland my hair doesn't get greasy anymore my skin is...
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There must be some mistake I can’t be that old Check the ledger again The ledger is correct, sir It is never wrong And while you’re here Here is your...
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. green.

light came, we saw the green ness of it all.                          we live in the country.
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brown wooden parquet floor tiles

Paste Wax

I asked Dad what he’d been doing lately. He said he’d been having nice phone conversations. I asked who he’d been talking to. He said Jason. “Who’s Jason?” I said. Dad’s...
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How Long

I may have been a child once I cannot recall young legs, bright cheeks, smooth skin - mirror reflects truth, aged tired eyes, silver strands of hair no longer...
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green plant on persons hand

We will

Do you remember when we planted the garden I tilled the soil and you followed behind carefully making lines for rows then lovingly placing each seed about a...
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the river flows and flows the castle walls have been breached a dinner table heaves   on the ramparts of our friendships crows, bearing news
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yellow maple leaf near body of water

Soaked as I am

Luck is that way rain falls over picnic dropped vase, water dribbles ankles, floor slippery, rivulets run driveway cracks, car has a new dent flaked with red paint crimson tears on gray I...
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Someday someone I love will find everything I have left hidden in boxes filed in cabinets hung on walls or even buried in rubble. It may simply be thrown away and...
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silhouette photography of man driving bus

One Night

There was a bus driver who had driven the very same route for fourteen years and never been able to get through the last five lights on...
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white and brown bus

Sherwood

I found a room through the classifieds, down the street in a clapboard house not far from my job. I met Dale the landlord on my lunch hour. He led me...
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I wonder what the opposite & equal reaction was to my loving you I know it doesn’t mean that you loved me as much in return the heavenly motion of our...
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yellow and black train on railways

22 Sept 22

He wasn’t a poet who woke early and wrote of distant trains drumming under a late blooming moon. He was much fresher than that. But reading his new...
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brown wooden puzzle blocks on white surface

9/23/22

Doctor told me today that I am cancer free. Then Albert Pujols hit home runs 699 & 700 in my honor. My very special, good news day!
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He

didn’t see poetry as anything special. it was just a part of him. a part of what he did... every day. he’d get up in the morning, have his coffee... walk out with the dog and write a...
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Inktober post 5

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grayscale photography of cemetery

St. Christopher

I wandered around after Tim shot himself in the basement, the place where we made out and watched monster movies after high school dances. “I like you,” he had said. “But I...
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f I could only fly he sings, serving up his marrow like the hors d'oeuvres no one takes, graciously enough to ache in front of strangers, to miss somebody openly while...
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you are taking everything from me overcoming me with you I’m like stars running out of light succumbing to the sunrise I’m on the street shielding my eyes from you till there’s nothing left...
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red clouds in the sky

Querulous

Lean out of this convention of age with your coffee, your blue humor and your explanation. I might even back up and laugh. I got here, too, you...
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high angle photography of waves on gray stone

Tides

now we are just passengers at best something, a shadow, comes within grasp the music continues to play on the rails the wagon proceeds meditation had been such...
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