Bob’s alarm jerked him out of a bad dream. When he opened his eyes, he was saved from a grand…
Introspection Dialogue
You look at me as if what you seeshould make you mean something moreto you than what you are. I…
Wisconsin Romance
I know after the misty cranberry bogsof an early Minnesota morning, drivingeast at first light, Wisconsin’s waitingfor me, the way…
The Flu
The pain splatters my skin like the firstmonster drops of rain before the torrents.It happened so fast, I thought my…
The second chapter of my second memoir is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.
Doris
Adopted 15 months ago by completechance meeting. A Humane Society rescuefrom an abusive environment, she’s alwaysthere for me, my baby…
Carpool
I’m not sure why you and I called it a carpool. It wasjust we two, and I always drove. There…
Puzzling
She turns both the box cover and bottom over, taps themon the coffee table, asks me did I hide the…
Soundproof
For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm…
New Ways To Love
Sarah’s grave looks new, well newer, and spreads outto a green grass field, the unfilled spaces for future use,to be…
Covid, I tell you, too sick to write. But I think I’m back. This draft is called “King of the Lily Pond”
Ed reads the draft of his story. It’s about Joe, his oldest cousin, tall and broad, much more so than…
Time Travel
To my dismay, I’ve found I have no copy of Jane Eyreat home. I’d wanted to reread it after all…
Silent Fireworks
I tested positive Saturday morning, and have livedwith covid, the fever, the chills, and the body ache,since, but now, as…
Covid, I tell you. Forgot to publish yesterday’s poem called “Out of Time”
It must be younever really caughton, weren’t smartenough to know,or weren’t thinkingabout how true lovemight grow when you could. Throughtime it…
The Funeral
There is no one who knows a father’s kneebetter than a child who wraps his armsaround that knee and clings to it like…
Fever
When you see your shadowfollowing you around, youmay imagine someoneworking for the FBI, CIA,or any of those surveillanceagencies has been…
At the Movies
Follow the yellow brick road with me. Seethe cornstalks, their long sheathed greencobs, how they snap to attention in front…
A Head in the Honey Pot Forever
Unbelievable that it’s all come down to this, the tossingin of the handful of soil and the long stemmed roseto…
Disease
Why do I remember how elm treesdied along the avenues in Madison?Blighted. Some disease. Blamethe Dutch? Really? What an honorto…
Under the Sun
The languor of summer days, a drop of sweat.Hit the napkin, plop on the word “miss.” It’sMezcal time here, and…
Lanning Lee 