Merry Christmas, the card was white, like Madison snowAnd like snow does, it’s become splotched with brown. I remember when you…
Wistful
Very soon, she said, maybe next weekHer face pressed against the pillowDamp from this night we sweated in the humidityOf…
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…
The Sounds of Seniors
Listen to your body, they said to me back thenSage advice for a young man with keen hearingSo I listened,…
A Family Tradition
I remember, nearing the endBefore dementia overwhelmed himThe first thing every morningMy father read the newspaperTurning more and more oftenTo…
This Will Be
She will becomeI see it, and I hear itThe prophesy of hope soon to be realizedJust a few more sick…
Jim, how I miss those horseshoe days
Remember the day you and I dug the pits at Castle Memorial?How you pinpointed the distance with a tape measureMaking…
Aftermath
At the rate they were rifling through the houseIt wouldn’t take them long for them to clean outEverything of any…
Madness
When B.H. told me he was madI wasn’t sure what he meantSo I asked if he referred toAngry or crazyHe…
3,650 rough drafts, 10 years later
On this date in 2014, I challenged myself to post a rough draft a day. It’s been a good 10…
The Years
Time creeps, time runsSometimes bothSometimes only oneIt moves along at any rate When you near the finish lineWill you show…
I guess I must have known some of them
Photos of kids in the bathtub with othersCan make you reflect on your childhood and shudderHow could parents think this…
Late Friends
At this rate, you may meet them in your next lifeHunched here, ass throbbing, sliding on the benchTo catch the…
Hauntings
I see the scene of resting that night poorlyThe fitful 2:00 a.m. dead of a Madison nightOutside a Lutheran church…
Until Then
When I do something now that I did 40 years agoWith the same ease as back then, I’m sometimes amazed…
Fall Apart
You may think your love’s perfectly pieced togetherThe final puzzle as pretty as the picture on the boxEvery curve and…
From Soup
It hardly came as a shock. Responding to the doorbell, Lucy opened to front door and found another box from Amazon. She…
Shadow Cast
Doris sat smiling at the shadow. She knew why it was cast that way. It had come to her while…
Hum
I pass my hands over you in rhythmFigure 8s I gently rock to summon energyInfuse you with the lifeWhile outside…
ThisClose
Once upon a time, my neighborhood was made upOf huge yards upon which rested grand homes Now, after all of…
Lanning Lee 