Re: LAX

One night flying home from ArgentinaI suffered an unavoidable layover in LAXArriving at 8:00 p.m. exhaustedMy connecting flight to HonoluluWould … More

Gordon Lightfoot Rose

Those weren’t soft footstepsTip-toeing up the stairsWhen Gordon Lightfoot took offJumped the last jet planeTo rise whole and healedFar above … More

Like a New Year’s Resolution

You replace a faucet set on one of your sinks, the old one having ceased to function. How many times … More

What the child sees

And wraith-like rollsSome marble maybeSmiles at nothing visibleAs far as I can seePlays some internal gameKnown only to herWith the … More

Was Light Is Will Be

His was the hand of light isWherever it wavedIn his wave we saw intoWithout end will see beyond darkness All … More

Coming out on Top

At last it looked like the summit could be reached in no time. Although asleep, I still felt energy radiating … More

Escaping the Tree

In my dream, I told Kimo and Alta to stay put.  If that crying was the cat calling out, then … More

Life Is Pieces

My father swinging a pickaxe rhythmicallyUp over his head and slamming it downThe point piercing hard red clayBreaking it all … More

Saving the Singer

Any fear Kimo had of this being a trap evaporated instantly. Off he trotted toward the singing damsel in distress. … More

The Voice

Kimo and I advanced cautiously up the hill. When we reached spots where the old man had difficulty, I, as … More

The Escape

Even though I heard the question, and certainly understood it, I couldn’t remember, in my fever, what my name was. … More

The Cave

Then out of the gloomy forest came first that burning yellow glow. Those eyes.As the feline figure sauntered toward us, … More

Going Up

Given his age and athletic build, I wondered if I could keep up with my guide.  But I needn’t have worried … More

A Guide

Frustratingly, however, I could see the big cat lurking above me every time I tried to turn back upward.  What this … More

Madison WI

It’s time to bagLeft over long underwearUndershirt and sweater layersShed it all like snakeskinPeel yourself right downTo that hungry pale … More

My Climb

So while I half dreamed of wandering around in what I can only describe as that shadowland of worry and … More

Middle Age

I’m long past middle age, but my joke has always been that no matter how old I get, I will … More

Time

He’d done his fair share of laughing over 70 years. His sense of humor was well-developed through the constant exercise … More

Fever

I lie half here in my roomThe other somewhere vague Wonder much of me shiveringIn blackness and sweat soaked Strain … More

Your Love’s Return

When she develops a routineShe’ll stop for nothingHours passing with only pausing brieflyHer method to add a few movementsThink and … More