Memory and Desire

Is it true the redhead died as sexy for you coming out of childhood?That your bow, once strung taut, began…

Some and None

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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