Re: LAX

One night flying home from ArgentinaI suffered an unavoidable layover in LAXArriving at 8:00 p.m. exhaustedMy connecting flight to HonoluluWould…

Gordon Lightfoot Rose

Those weren’t soft footstepsTip-toeing up the stairsWhen Gordon Lightfoot took offJumped the last jet planeTo rise whole and healedFar above…

You replace a faucet set on one of your sinks, the old one having ceased to function. How many times…

And wraith-like rollsSome marble maybeSmiles at nothing visibleAs far as I can seePlays some internal gameKnown only to herWith the…

His was the hand of light isWherever it wavedIn his wave we saw intoWithout end will see beyond darkness All…

At last it looked like the summit could be reached in no time. Although asleep, I still felt energy radiating…

In my dream, I told Kimo and Alta to stay put. If that crying was the cat calling out, then…

My father swinging a pickaxe rhythmicallyUp over his head and slamming it downThe point piercing hard red clayBreaking it all…

Any fear Kimo had of this being a trap evaporated instantly. Off he trotted toward the singing damsel in distress.…

Kimo and I advanced cautiously up the hill. When we reached spots where the old man had difficulty, I, as…

Even though I heard the question, and certainly understood it, I couldn’t remember, in my fever, what my name was.…

Then out of the gloomy forest came first that burning yellow glow. Those eyes.As the feline figure sauntered toward us,…

Given his age and athletic build, I wondered if I could keep up with my guide. But I needn’t have worried…

Frustratingly, however, I could see the big cat lurking above me every time I tried to turn back upward. What this…

It’s time to bagLeft over long underwearUndershirt and sweater layersShed it all like snakeskinPeel yourself right downTo that hungry pale…

So while I half dreamed of wandering around in what I can only describe as that shadowland of worry and…

I’m long past middle age, but my joke has always been that no matter how old I get, I will…

He’d done his fair share of laughing over 70 years. His sense of humor was well-developed through the constant exercise…

I lie half here in my roomThe other somewhere vague Wonder much of me shiveringIn blackness and sweat soaked Strain…

When she develops a routineShe’ll stop for nothingHours passing with only pausing brieflyHer method to add a few movementsThink and…