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…

I see the scene of resting that night poorlyThe fitful 2:00 a.m. dead of a Madison nightOutside a Lutheran church…

When I do something now that I did 40 years agoWith the same ease as back then, I’m sometimes amazed…

You may think your love’s perfectly pieced togetherThe final puzzle as pretty as the picture on the boxEvery curve and…

It hardly came as a shock. Responding to the doorbell, Lucy opened to front door and found another box from Amazon. She…

Doris sat smiling at the shadow. She knew why it was cast that way. It had come to her while…

I pass my hands over you in rhythmFigure 8s I gently rock to summon energyInfuse you with the lifeWhile outside…

Once upon a time, my neighborhood was made upOf huge yards upon which rested grand homes Now, after all of…

I came home in time to catch the tail end of the showThe part where he found her finallyBecause even…

I know every star you will see tonightAll of them being born in times after meSoaring only by my design…

Where the world of aloha I’d knownFor most of my life fell awayPulled out from under me, the nasty trick…

On the night I died I dreamt those twilight dreamsThe way you fever dream when you’re half awakeI saw my…

On the morning of the righteous and the savedThose born once more entitled by being born beforeOnly this time knowing…

I took driver’s ed. the summer before 10th grade. I ended up in the class at Lualuna Academy. Pretty ritzy, and more…

Magical, the way our lives danced like a fairytale spinningCharmed amalgam of fantasy, dream, and highest heartsMy good fortune our…

In the dream that woke me up todayI’m walking somewhere in the vicinity of disasterMy old friend from the black…

There used to be only a just bearable fewNow there are an unbearable few hundredWitnessed in the dreaded half dark…

I glance behind sensing that I’ll seeIt’s only myself standing behind me I wonder why I should trust youNot knowing…

The male is quiet, very quiet, a stealth travelerHe meanders with his wife and babies, searchingFor food, it must be,…