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

X. Crossing Sevens

So they don’t look like ones, you taught me, thatwill bring us back to all the music in Madison held … More

IX. A Madison Mis-Memory

i.My poor dance of memory means I can’t quite reconfigure you,a fool’s waltz round to think today, remembering how we … More

VIII. After the Fall

i.You grow a green world, have a green thumb, I see,and I gladly enter into your loamy scented Eden,hung with … More

VI. Madness This Way

i.I don’t know if it was the auburn hair with golden highlights,or the bright red lipstick smile, the dashing scarf … More

V. The Middle of Night

I can hardly say I lived by a frozen lake, on cigarettes and beer,my diet at night, when I’d hear … More

III. Madison Bound

I charged into the heart of darkness, Madison at 2:00 a.m.,so ominous the way it looked like anywhere else, maybeeven … More

I. Trial

I think there was air, but I had trouble finding it,between talking with you and passing out, I madeshort exploratory … More

Seeing Nearer

I see when I have finally walked almost to the endof this said old oak forest, and I am going, … More

A Clearing (HS 151)

If only we could shed grief as our skin does rain.This is not like water.  You must go. Go farther down,down … More

Grecian Formula Bleach Blond

Each time we meet, we roam the hills of imagination,plucking up little plots, new twists and turnsleading only to a … More