When I was young I was dragged to Sunday service, sat unhappily brooding in a middling distance pew, wedged in…
Finding Words Fast Enough
What do you do when you have a harder and harder time expressing in words what is running through your…
One More Time, Maybe
It’s so no law of nature that your nightsshould be all sweetness and light, dreams delightful,when you’re in love.Let me…
How Writing Works
One day you will write the best thing you ever wrote,you think, hope, each day your prayer, your mantra.For inspiration…
Pandemic Accostation
So informal so not a bow Too formal for a shaka sign We meet side by side at a sidewalk…
Super Power
If you’re like me, you’d wish you had a super power at birth, of course used for good, not for…
BEARERS
I honored them all and was as much to me as I could bear the other sunrises ago I used…
To paint the devil on the wall
Don’t ask, Will I always be me or will I change? Will I realize when I do not recognize myself…
When Lips Dream
Your lips dream dreams of their own. Their tiny brains only have room for good memories of kisses. A lifetime…
Rise
Every morning a variety of birds chirp and sing me awake. And I am pleased and thankful at this late…
A Veterans’ Cemetery
These stone tablets grow row on row, symmetrically planted concrete flowers blooming in a precisely laid field as far as…
A Dream Within a Dream
I listened to my boss’s pep talk. Let me make this clear as crystal to all of you.You’ve heard, I…
Spring Sprang
My first winter in Madison The coldest winter since they began keeping track The temperature plummeting into the -60s with…
Storming the 7th Continent
I had to jump farther than I would have expected. I had to jump farther than I had since I…
Disappointing You
It’s no secret you’ve hoped NASA’d fly me to the moon Have me bounce around the dark side for a…
What’s Black and White
Every morning my father brings in the newspaper, pours himself a cup coffee, then sits at the dining room table…
I am a Korean Lee
이 (Lee/Ee/I/Yi/Ri/Rhee/Rhie/Reeh) There are other variants, but that’s plenty for now. 이 is the second most common Korean surname, surpassed…
Routine Maintenance
The mechanic wipes his hands with a greasy cloth, says, Time breaks down the integrity of any vehicle,which one day…
For Us
In the wake of illness striking millions by surprise those affected by it personally or through kinship ties, how they…
Too Few Loves
Together again for the first time, every time, he brushed her cheek, she caressed his side, two souls seeing everything…
