Friday nights we smoke dopedrink Strawberry Hilland I give Steve driving lessons Every time we pass by her houseSteve stops … More
Tag: #Love
maybe try saying this
so if you can’t say every single wordthen try at least a word or tworemarking maybe howtwo neutron stars will … More
Everything I gave you
I gave you everythingI want it backall of itright noweven all these years laterunlessyou don’t have it anymoreall tossed long … More
Old Flames Die (350 words)
I had a feeling I was not talking to the most public-minded citizen, but I tried that tack first. “Instead … More
Dissolve
dance of souls swayhot ear to warm cheekbaffled sound of heartsrunning throughso small the body spacerclosing of emptiness betweenflesh and … More
Queen of the Supermarket
I saw you just now at Safewayan angel working the register on Christmas day. Every time, like Laurence SterneI admire … More
Books as old friends
I read you again, silent words and fading pagesturn them, weighing the paperthe memory of our first touchI close my … More
if her
would there and then the vast emptyacross the horizon your hand for mepass all yourself to here, your walkand stopto … More
I know about first love
I’ve been there and I can tell youexactly what it’s like. For sure youhoped she’d be someone special, the one, andwow … More
Never Ever Let You Go
The choice, a desperate grasp of great consequence,a hand, cramped with fisted frustration, fingers straining,reaching harder than hard burned bricks … More
Sometimes a love doesn’t seem hardly enough
to get me through this world whole Sometimes it’s just enough to get me out of bedbut by midday I’m … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 21, It Was a Very Good Year
A one, and a two: When I was living Chapter 21, it was a very good year . . . … More
November Song
I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 5, I Wish I Could Quit
You know how Mark Twain says that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world, how he’s done it … More
Time: Lesson #5 (September Song)
RememberSummerCountryRockDiscoPop78Era / AndRecordsCassettesCDsMP3sWaiterPlease * * * * * Aloha #WriterFriday. Today’s #WritingPrompt is music Use it to inspire a piece … More
Affair on Eighth Avenue
I sing a fall chill wind exploring the corners here, on the downside of town,the sun unable to peer into … More
The Whys of Love (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part 36)
“But why steal from old people the cars you use for the other old people to hit?” “Well, boss, maybe … More
Dance to Darkness
I notice her here this evening, watch her closely, intentlylistening to a fly buzz and bump up against the screen. … More
Not Some Poem
He tired of writing poems aboutmorning, old age, and birds,telling buds, planets, fate, and war,how everyone knows meadows and hate … More
Romance on the High Seas (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part Twenty-Four
Chan had a second beer, then lay down to try to get some sleep. He had a bad feeling sleep would … More