If you want to tell today’s plain factYou’d best record it right awayBefore it’s blinded and bewildered by timeTurns into…
The Odds
It’s been a year now since Kenneth stopped in to pay what he owed me. Walking in after three tentative knocks, he produced…
And you get baloney from how?
Bologna’s a city known for sausageThat disavows any knowledgeOf what goes on down those sketchyDark streets where meat and pavement…
The Lessoning of You Knew Who
So little of you, you now knowing downLife teaching you smaller bits of selfA growing descentCertainty slides into mysteryNot doubt,…
Wind and Reed
A new moon slipping overWhite plate and crystalShadowed beneath where sustenanceIs no longer cravedSlipping and slipped beyond supperTongues still tasting…
The Man Who Mourned Twice (Part Two)
On the ride home, Kalo lay limp across his lap, exhausted by the long scare due to the first two…
The Man Who Mourned Twice (Part One)
When he had to put Kalo to sleep, he cried all the way to the vet. She’d been his sole…
Do Them Part
Someone wake him before he dreams of her againHe sees them stroll the shore with pant leg cuffs rolled upTo…
Hunger
I go to your funeral to witness who else is still aliveYou go because Someone may say something about you…
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Every Sunday my post-church treatIs a jumbo dill pickle from Wally’s SuperetteI can hear them calling to meFloating in their…
Not Yet
That first time, more than 40 years nowHow many clock ticks like soft background musicFor the streaming rush of words…
When me becomes Me
When do you know you’re You? Self-realization, Self-actualization Coming in from the swirl of identity unhinged You swinging wildly in…
Omega Watch
KnockHemingway starts Knock Knockthe germ of your joke Knock Knock KnockPoe’s living hereDylan’s singing about heaven’s door Knock Knock Knock…
Hang Up
It’s amazing how the internet white pagesList cell and landline numbers going back ages I would try the most recent…
When life gives you lemons
I have a cousin who once lived in Oakland, CaliforniaWhere she had a magic lemon tree in her backyard With…
Transformed to Tiklings tinikling
Now that we’re old enough at eight, I supposeWe learn the Filipino dance called TiniklingOur school is far ahead on…
Like magic everything that was is not
Those vicious helpings with snapping jawsChunks second and third of local host preyChoked down in meals only filling thoseStuff fast…
Pistol Smoke
No more energy to fire as age can’t musterConscious any pin could mean a poppingLost all rabid zest to carry…
Destination
Do I go left or right hereThe way I drive places MostlyI don’t know street names anymoreThey could have no…
Seen and Unseen
I see the clouds come floating inFrom the northwest this morning The weather forecast is for showersThis afternoon and strengthening…
Lanning Lee 