Social Interaction

Returning, your tongue must be hung on a coat hook, your language each evening left skewered at the door, as … More

A Sorry Sight

My father sold insurance, and many of his clients lived in the roughest parts of town.He kept under the driver’s … More

Spring, Madison, Wisconsin, 2022

It’s another spring coming that I won’t be back in Madison,go there to write, my personal writing workshop, a retreat,where … More

Side Effects

He’d never been big on lines, but this one he didn’t mind. It snaked back and forth between the stanchions … More

A Plea, not a Poem

I see it everywhere nowadays, some people becoming whom they were born to be, but so many others leaving the … More

Note to Self

Please, can you snap out of it, please? The pandemic’s loosening up its death grip a bit now. Don’t think … More

Mask Up

Today I wore long pants for the first time since I flew home from Egypt in February 2020.That would be … More

I’m Still Here

I promised back then that if one day our situation worsened to the pointwhere people became belligerent and screamed at … More

Pandemic Accostation

So informal so not a bow Too formal for a shaka sign We meet side by side at a sidewalk … More

Get Quiet

I watch as the party rages on across the way. It’s now officially after midnight, and no one’s phoned the … More

Missing Pages

I’m stapling together revised 5-year projections,our support staff still working remotely.I love this stapler, well worth the money,handling more than … More