The Sounds of Seniors

Listen to your body, they said to me back thenSage advice for a young man with keen hearingSo I listened, … More

Say Hello

I will remember little to finally nothing of this poem in timeWriting is the act of pushing words like these … More

Yesterday

I read that if you learn something each dayYour brain will stay flexible, or so some sayHold off memory loss … More

Omega Watch

KnockHemingway starts Knock Knockthe germ of your joke Knock Knock KnockPoe’s living hereDylan’s singing about heaven’s door Knock Knock Knock … More

Pistol Smoke

No more energy to fire as age can’t musterConscious any pin could mean a poppingLost all rabid zest to carry … More

A Self-Effacing Beauty

Not just another pretty faceOr boasting of looks other women should mimicTaught at a young age to value nothing by … More

Looking for Love

In love for all his life with every poet’s idea of love, he always wandered around in some kind of … More

Books Write You Write Books

You think of your life as a library.  It’s a big one, maybe not the size of the warehouse in Raiders … More

Cake Pressure

The wishYour classic bated-breath momentFocus under pressureAll those eyesIn the flamesOf flickering little spotlights castMy face floating above the frostingMy … More

That Restless Feeling

The wind moans all night through, groans soLove made for hours with surrounding treesSwaying together far past the point of … More

Then

Back when Friday was for crazy, Saturday insanity,Sunday for laying in the dead, steamed like lobsters or clams,there’d come again … More

To Autumn

Love might break in at Indian Summer,a mid-autumn drying then, and quick,remember Madison on fire,the multi-bright colored leaves,votive candles, how … More

The Movies

I remember the theater, the old movies festival, the music, and you, the smell of popcorn filling the lobby, that … More

Practice

Shouldn’t everyone who attends a high school class reunion, he thought, have something interesting to talk about? Don’t we all … More

Passed

Someday, the old man thought, when I’m very old, someday whenthe migrating Red Teals soar southward over good old Milwaukeeheading … More

Time

Maybe I’ve been here before, but I can’t say.My heartbeat tells me this could be a new place,that excitement of … More

Missed Miles

Travel catch-upFrance friesChina frailsIreland fleetsNorway wavers Korea warnsAntarctica whelms Yesterdays of anytimeDesire returnedAche in the plane seatFatigue flying time zonesDay after … More

I Am, I Said

People can be such drive-by critics, those looking for value.But maybe I prefer that, not being seen, comparedto rubbernecking quick-stoppers … More

So Much up in the Air

Nothing much gets the old adrenaline going now, but even if you’re tired, you know, you have to force yourself … More

Introspection Dialogue

You look at me as if what you seeshould make you mean something moreto you than what you are. I … More