Some and None

How was that exhilaration when bombs and bullets tore up flesh and bone?When the blood and brains of fellow soldiers … More

I’ll Guess I Didn’t Wake You

Usually, I’m in Madison right now, so it’s appropriate I should dream of you,and you know how those dreams always … More

So every soul now in this placeSits beneath its bone and fleshThe ancient path of follow him swallowingIn case we … More

I trip along the road to her house.There’s no sidewalk here, never has been.We used to hold hands along this … More

Amazing how the prophesy of time and age fulfills itself.Hard to stand and harder to get around sometimes.Aches rush at … More

His work just about done, Chad sat down on the avocado-colored La-Z-Boy recliner planted on the beige and brown shag … More

Sometime back then he began running round the light,dressed in striped fatigues, the prison building himself,dodging a zigzag under the … More

The first thing you see are the metal straps,the packing case type glinting in low light,used, in their first lives … More

This is the way the world ends,our death, I swear, our not to be,fast in the distance, a growing dotthat … More

yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. You know that’s the way I like it. Mmmmm, slow and smooth, baby, baby, baby, … More

One day our bodies willburst into flowersturn hard as wellto bits of sandy shoreswhere children make us castlesto wash awaywe’ll … More

The poems land awkwardly nowAll the more as I age and write againEverything I’ve written of beforeI write this same … More

Well, this is it. I’m the last one here. They’re all gone. Even my wife. Humankind and the pandemic took … More

Cindy and Jerry came to dinner last night, and it was awful. First off, Nani, my wife invited them behind … More

She wanted a big-screen TV mounted on the wall opposite her bed. In between munching bonbons and polishing her nails, she’d … More

We’d all grown up together from small-kid time, most from age three or four. So far we’d survived all kinds of … More

The screen message was “No Bluetooth Device Detected.” Jim patted the pants pocket where he kept his phone. Nothing. He … More

The electricity bill popped into his inbox just as he was paying the annual termite protection bill, which was $469.26. … More

He was tallish, maybe 6’1’, and a good athlete. He played both basketball and volleyball in high school. He was what we … More