Eating Healthy

I’m leaning over this pot of stewing vegetables, trying to stay healthy, I’ve thrown everything into the mix I can … More

Well?

The well of regret runs deep, clear, cold, hot, then high. I’m a rock tossed into this endless pit, traveling … More

Choir

He sits there stick alert staring into space, one quivering hand resting just above the keys, the other pointing off … More

The Cleaner

Everything appeared tidy, organized,each item in its proper place,but when I took a closer look ata lamp, a painting, or … More

Requiem

This blood in a chipped china cup is mine,The pattern round the rim is of birds in flight,Frail bodies brushed … More

BEARERS

I honored them all and was as much to me as I could bear the other sunrises ago I used … More

Storming the 7th Continent

I had to jump farther than I would have expected. I had to jump farther than I had since I … More

Nature Is Revealed

Where are the ones in the suits of gold,those second lookers who’d whiplash our tender necks,the heart beaters who’d burst … More

The Homecoming (Part Two)

He sipped his tea.  Black tea in the daytime, green tea at night, right?  Or was it the other way … More

Rainy Day Love

the race is on to outrun the raindrops my feet beating the ground faster than they can fall my rhythmic … More

Dinnertime

Charlie calls hogs, eats um, chickens too, royally roasting marbled tunes of time draped in gold and bar-b-que sauce, sweet … More

Black Falling Rain

The white smoke winding cloth about her face, pale cerement, raised off-handed, another Pall Mall cigarette lit, red pack, another … More

As I Write This Title I Am

The thought is not to dwell in the past, or in the future,but to learn to live every moment in … More

The Feud

The Elgin Marbles have stood up well, true, not wasting much under the rude press of time, considering their grief … More

Three, Two, One

He jumps in his car and drives,from the Oakland docks, remember?and drives fastO, Death, Ralph Stanley,running round on a loop, … More

The Taking of Medicine

Dave’s here from Wisconsin, and we’re swimming at Ala Moana Beach,despite the posted bright orange jellyfish warning signs.I’ve assured him … More

Breakfast After a Bad One

Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when … More

A History with Whiskey

Since I’ve retired, I’ve looked for things to do to fill out my routine.  One thing I’d never done before … More

The Caretaker – Part Two

So he’d ceased all criminal activity.  Immediately.  It was like being hit with a magic wand by his fairy godmother.  … More

Mind Your Frickin Manners

Lots of times you don’t know if it’s a joke with Dave or not.  If you survey all us folks … More