If you know, you know

“The American people have spoken”I’m American peopleSeldom ‘Herd’ I have voted in 13 presidential elections. My candidate has won 6 … More

This Burning Wait

It consumes all of me is a dreamSinging red, yellow, and orangeAutumn’s dying days dance all downIn Korea choir the … More

DMZ

The sounds of over there is ‘them’ and here is ‘us’Ghosts hear as if they were the honoring of some … More

Ode To Housework

Here’s to the broom, the mop, and the spongesThe cloths, the sprays, and the toilet bowl brushesTools of the exercise … More

Dear Reader, this is stuff that’s dry and boring

If you’re searching for some deeper meaning in this poemDon’t bother, Dear Reader, everything’s right here on the surfaceLike the … More

Life Masks

In art class we memorialized ourselves making plaster face castsA time stamp to last over all our years to comeOur … More

The Case of the Eternal Adolescents

The Hardy boys never had sexNever produced progeny to perpetuate the detective family dynastyNo junior detectives carrying on the family traditionFrank … More

Uh

My dentist calls to tell me, after a lengthy search – before the internetHe’s found an orthodontist who doesn’t use … More

The Concentration Camp at Dachau, Germany

I’ve traveled by myself, and I’ve gone with tour groupsAnd the thing about solo journeys is thisWith trips anywhere when … More

Bracing Myself

The green tinted windowsCast an emerald glow over everythingIt’s like coming to Oz to ask for a fillingMy new dentist, … More

You’re So Ambitious for a Juvenile

My guardian angel wasn’t there to protect meWhen my nose sucked in gobs of chlorinated waterMy eyes stinging and my … More

The Years

Time creeps, time runsSometimes bothSometimes only oneIt moves along at any rate When you near the finish lineWill you show … More

Shadow Cast

Doris sat smiling at the shadow. She knew why it was cast that way. It had come to her while … More

Sunday Service

On the morning of the righteous and the savedThose born once more entitled by being born beforeOnly this time knowing … More

A-

When I’m deep in practiceI’ll go an hour or twoOnly pausing perhapsTo add a new fingering or chordAnd at the … More

Look Up

“Hey, Lanning, you look younger every time I see you.” I look up and see an older gentleman smiling down … More

That Fast Close

You were the only one I ever huggedWho made me feelYou were closer to me than I was to myselfIn … More

Good Buy

I smiled as I put on the white cotton gloves. All of us were required to wear them because the … More

Black or White

Randol explained to me one timeThe difference between black and whiteOne slims, the other does notEspecially when someone’s taking your … More

Life from Death

I find these bodies often in the yardRaking, I’ll come across a nestAnd lying nearby, a baby, featherlessBrought down by … More