No Peace

I see something sullen, a sort of smoldering angerin the face of the father. I understand he has losthis son … More

Social Interaction

Returning, your tongue must be hung on a coat hook, your language each evening left skewered at the door, as … More

We find ourselves entering a corridor of language, she from the eastern door, and I from the west. We take steps, … More

From who has been to who will be here?Questions to answer like a color commentator.Opportunities I choose to select people,picture … More

Eventually now, I see the whole wide world we knew,if we live long enough – I’m finding it’s so for … More

It was up there somewhere, that ideal place where the dead waited for me.I learned about afterlife and angels long … More

Will we find that it’s fine, eventually, all by itself,that it’ll blow over with the passage of time, I wondered.Life’s … More

You know that’s a word, right?It’s one of those onomatopoeia types.Those that come from a sound.Like when you’re trying to … More

How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China … More

The sea rises and falls helpless under the moon waves roll on their cover – in sunlight birds dove and … More

It’s funny, I thought – on the non-stop to New York,staring out at the little pockets of light spread againstthe … More

Spring was an adventure; we were learning the ropes.Summertime, a little easier going, working out the kinks.Fall ushered in those … More

Here we wooeee go, pardners, it’s the Wild West times, an’ the Wild South too, an’ the Wild East as … More

The consequences of confused minds would have bound us in that spot. We’d just found majority, still too young to live … More

We park and she says nothing; it’s getting dark. I follow in her hunting, block after block, down one street, … More

Sometimes it’s a straight line,the closest distance between two points.But it’s not necessarily a flat line.For some, yes, that’s true, … More

If you ever see a naked ghostplease know you’re being had.No one has ever seen a genuine naked ghost.This is … More

Wherever there’s waterthree atoms have formed a molecule of H2O,and on that molecular level this bondis the orderly arrangement of … More

They sit bent over a creaking teak table top,this old pair aged out in days, near the limit,eating simple fare … More

The last meaning what? This guy.I’ve read enough stories, seen enough movies and TV showsto know that there’s always the … More