I know every star you will see tonightAll of them being born in times after meSoaring only by my design … More
Category: Death
The Dimming of the Day
On the night I died I dreamt those twilight dreamsThe way you fever dream when you’re half awakeI saw my … More
Man on Wire
In the dream that woke me up todayI’m walking somewhere in the vicinity of disasterMy old friend from the black … More
About You
Of course it must be “you” Even though I think of your ashes As a collection of what you were … More
Our Music
My mom’s ‘ukulele, a Martin, very rareSits on the piano she also played The ‘uke was her favorite instrument There’s … More
Good Buy
I smiled as I put on the white cotton gloves. All of us were required to wear them because the … More
In the Next
I appreciated the raise you encouraged me to ask forEuphoric like hopscotching over an imaginary lineSensing the end of some … More
The Birds of Kuykendall Hall
There was an inspirational reason behind the design detailThose novel three stories of floor-to-ceiling glassThe grand transparent window walls of … More
Last Flight
Birds have that gift of flightTheir lives so simple seemingEating and sleepingBusy nest buildersTrue, they have predatorsFrom which we couldn’t … More
Off Script
Some song about what goes on under the coversI’ve never experienced quite the same frantic anticsAs seen on TV or … More
Wind and Reed
A new moon slipping overWhite plate and crystalShadowed beneath where sustenanceIs no longer cravedSlipping and slipped beyond supperTongues still tasting … More
The Man Who Mourned Twice (Part Two)
On the ride home, Kalo lay limp across his lap, exhausted by the long scare due to the first two … More
The Man Who Mourned Twice (Part One)
When he had to put Kalo to sleep, he cried all the way to the vet. She’d been his sole … More
Hunger
I go to your funeral to witness who else is still aliveYou go because Someone may say something about you … 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
The Halo Effect
They call that the halo effect. What? What I was just saying. It’s the idea that if you form a positive opinion of … More
You Become the Happiest Half Empty Glass
That’s the way love goes sometimesA real rollercoasterHighs to lows to loop the loopsThen all flattening out at the end … More
A Searching of the Heart
I feel like a man whose memory functions glacier slow nowMy mind takes eons to piece together some semblance of … More
Just the Facts
She brushes his hand with a blood red nail as they both reach for their coffee cupsSits back on the … More
Never Gone
I take great comfort in knowing thisThat the dead still live in my memories of themSo they are with me … More
Lanning Lee 