Siren Song This Way

I often hear it pierce through everythingthat bouncing glitter of your voiceagainst the pane of slumping glasssee the black clouds … More

X. Crossing Sevens

So they don’t look like ones, you taught me, thatwill bring us back to all the music in Madison held … More

IX. A Madison Mis-Memory

i.My poor dance of memory means I can’t quite reconfigure you,a fool’s waltz round to think today, remembering how we … More

VIII. After the Fall

i.You grow a green world, have a green thumb, I see,and I gladly enter into your loamy scented Eden,hung with … More

VII. Shooting Craps

I  can still picture the pair of fuzzy dice swingingfrom my little orange Karmann Ghia’s rearview mirror.I never knew whether to … More

VI. Madness This Way

i.I don’t know if it was the auburn hair with golden highlights,or the bright red lipstick smile, the dashing scarf … More

V. The Middle of Night

I can hardly say I lived by a frozen lake, on cigarettes and beer,my diet at night, when I’d hear … More

IV. Mad City

Eventually we may all sort of maybe guess at whatour reviews were, what they might have said about usover the … More

III. Madison Bound

I charged into the heart of darkness, Madison at 2:00 a.m.,so ominous the way it looked like anywhere else, maybeeven … More

II. To Escape Paradise

Walking backward now I watch myself, my face reversedin the mirrored glass.  I open it and turn the clock handsback to … More

I. Trial

I think there was air, but I had trouble finding it,between talking with you and passing out, I madeshort exploratory … More

Seeing Nearer

I see when I have finally walked almost to the endof this said old oak forest, and I am going, … More

Future No Future

I’m no spring chicken, as my dad used to say.What if this is what life will be like until the … More

Secret Friends

I picked up the phone and pretended to haveconversations with you, imitating my parentsthe way kids do.  But you never seemed … More

out like a light

the bulb flickers dark to light to dark to lightlike a strobing spotlight making everything go slow-motion it’s twelve feet … More

Scene: Not To Be Heard

A big shout out to all those with shuttered dreamswho were in the plays, maybe breaking records,I mean broke, broke … More

Wait Until Dark

I can taste the salt on my lips I lick with my tongueconstantly my lips chapping and peeling a littlefor … More

Drinking Glasses Down

You roseand do not hide from memy ancient observationhow you grow I seea healing once more for memy constant patient … More

Still Learning at 65

What’s meant by the “side” of the bed, since you wake up on it,obviously is the half you lie on, … More

Volume to Zero

We don’t have to play this station anymorethe one with the sick twisted DJ of broken recordsthe shiny vinyl player … More