The Quieting Night

I’m not the only one awake this morning at 3:00 a.m.I barely hear the sound of neighborsTheir shared experiences, I … More

Some Carnival Ride

At twilight’s fall, I see the course my ride has takenMapped back, how the sun rose at dawnFelt the wheel … More

Not mine, anchored under sheets lapped over us,wrinkled little but still not broken,yet stiff enough to press the issue. So … More

The only thing that’s strangeis realizing I’ve arrived alive.Nothing’s changed to more weird make. Water still runs through my fingers,scooped … More

Idris Elba, but he didn’t want to commit until he heard if he was the next Bond. Jason Statham, but … More

Love memories, a gravestone’s dust of snowTwirls beneath a mirrored glistening ballThe way you say, “I’m yours for good”Baryshnikov, Rampal, … More

I say, “When silence disappears, that’s where nothingness begins,”and she’s skeptical – I can see it in the crinkle between … More

There were a couple songs she danced to more joyfully than others,that spark in her eye when she heard them … More

It is so cold here, and we are so needyWho will turn down slim sheetsAll there is to cover us … More

Is it true the redhead died as sexy for you coming out of childhood?That your bow, once strung taut, began … More

How was that exhilaration when bombs and bullets tore up flesh and bone?When the blood and brains of fellow soldiers … More

Usually, I’m in Madison right now, so it’s appropriate I should dream of you,and you know how those dreams always … More

So every soul now in this placeSits beneath its bone and fleshThe ancient path of follow him swallowingIn case we … More

I trip along the road to her house.There’s no sidewalk here, never has been.We used to hold hands along this … More

Amazing how the prophesy of time and age fulfills itself.Hard to stand and harder to get around sometimes.Aches rush at … More

His work just about done, Chad sat down on the avocado-colored La-Z-Boy recliner planted on the beige and brown shag … More

Sometime back then he began running round the light,dressed in striped fatigues, the prison building himself,dodging a zigzag under the … More

The first thing you see are the metal straps,the packing case type glinting in low light,used, in their first lives … More

This is the way the world ends,our death, I swear, our not to be,fast in the distance, a growing dotthat … More