Was It Only a Moment?

Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen … More

The American Cemeteries of World War II

All of us have seen photos of tulip fields, vibrant colors stretching for milesNo need to see those in the … 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

Write Like H E Double Hockey Sticks

If you want to tell today’s plain factYou’d best record it right awayBefore it’s blinded and bewildered by timeTurns into … More

Hang Up

It’s amazing how the internet white pagesList cell and landline numbers going back ages I would try the most recent … More

Maybe a Phone Call

The phone rings. It’s a live number.  I inhale and hold my breath.  It’s been many years, so I can’t say for … More

Time’s Slow Fade

That former love’s words recalled moreIn bits and pieces like lyricsOf a song recalled less and lessHer face shimmers further … 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

The Last Time

Neil Young was playing.  The Comes a Time album.  Sipping a beer, he stared into the fireplace and saw her face.         Young did that … More

It’s Inevitable

What’s that oneOn the tip of your tongueOr more your ear It goesDa da da di da di da da … More

Reminding the Gaps

At a reading a couple weeks back, I read a piece about some of the encounters I’d had with racist … More

That’s the One

I enter the vaultWhere lights never workOnly the dimmest glowSeeping through the open doorHelps me hunt In here lies every … More

Relieving Memory

Funny how memory can play the roleOf a well-meaning deceiverWhisperer of white liesWeaver of softening patternsRounder of rough contoursA childhood … More

No Such Thing as Even Days 

Every slice of frozen timeHeld up to the examining lightHold your place in itWith a wrinkling index fingerAnd crooked bonedWhile … More

Time Can’t Fade

We knew each other well a long time agoI hated every moment apartWe were perfect for meBrilliant schemes of flesh … More

Rise

Now we will riseWith no storm suppressionNo night hanging dark heavinessNothing to distort or fadeThat image of usSet long years … More

Je ne suis plus jaloux

May we – you surely – dance eternallyAnkle and back injuries aside now certainlyRecall our lopsided disco twosomeInevitable one-sided show … More

First Love

Been there Can tell you exactly howIt’s hoped to be this one, the oneAnd wow, this is itTwo people foundDon’t … More

Love Remains

Articulate toes curlicue venerable sandsMurmur maker, birdsong, youArtistic swirl of bone mixed stone patternsFingers play circles on chicken skinPush time … More