Was It Only a Moment?

Losing pages dog-eared as my life like chapter timesRead my path like a book left fading on a pale benchWhen … More

The Getaway

When I look back, over my shoulder, I see ours had to be the sort of loveThat must be transitory, … More

Merry Christmas, the card was white, like Madison snowAnd like snow does, it’s become splotched with brown. I remember when you … More

Very soon, she said, maybe next weekHer face pressed against the pillowDamp from this night we sweated in the humidityOf … More

I write to keep you safe, captured in these wordsI keep you leaving traces and love’s truthsYou live on in … More

I’ve always found love works this wayBefore it strikes the highest peakBlows out and sinks my last desireIt hints at heat … More

After all the crying and cursingAfter all the anger and griefTime had the time to heal the woundBut what followed … More

My dad would have been 105 years old todayHe died in 2009 at age 89 in a nursing home He … More

You were the only one I ever huggedWho made me feelYou were closer to me than I was to myselfIn … More

To be that fool for love every timeAnd a slave to it just as oftenHow funny I remember afterwardO blind … More

— one more for Willie Nelson I remember like the hovering of birdsHow they settled on the water and we … More

for Willie Nelson My silence was my worst mistakeNot saying the same, I know, must have hurtBeing unsure of what … More

Time falls out visions wash awayHope holds on making plans for meFaith keeps pieces stored in empty roomsAs I dream … More

Is it true, my guide asks, that America views this as a third-world countryThat we consider Egypt’s development to be … More

She had a thing for birdsMolded out of clayWoven with yarnEmbroidered on her clothes She did that with the Aloha … More

Some song about what goes on under the coversI’ve never experienced quite the same frantic anticsAs seen on TV or … More

When I was boundWas I bound tightFrank Gorshin pleaseRiddle me this How can you ever feelYou’ve been turned freeWhen you … More

The day is young and I am notSo slowly walk this beaten pathMy daily pondering strollScanning the surroundingsSearching for a … More

In the last years I wonderWhy I have to do thisVisit in the nursing homeNow that your mind is goneAnd … More

A writer should show and not tellI’ve heard that advice foreverSo if you and I were a storyThe better final … More