My first winter ever, my friends, Kevin and Cathy, asked if I’d like to take a cross country skiing class … More
Tag: #WriterSunday
Eating Healthy
I’m leaning over this pot of stewing vegetables, trying to stay healthy, I’ve thrown everything into the mix I can … More
Well?
The well of regret runs deep, clear, cold, hot, then high. I’m a rock tossed into this endless pit, traveling … More
Choir
He sits there stick alert staring into space, one quivering hand resting just above the keys, the other pointing off … More
The Cleaner
Everything appeared tidy, organized,each item in its proper place,but when I took a closer look ata lamp, a painting, or … More
Requiem
This blood in a chipped china cup is mine,The pattern round the rim is of birds in flight,Frail bodies brushed … More
BEARERS
I honored them all and was as much to me as I could bear the other sunrises ago I used … More
Storming the 7th Continent
I had to jump farther than I would have expected. I had to jump farther than I had since I … More
Nature Is Revealed
Where are the ones in the suits of gold,those second lookers who’d whiplash our tender necks,the heart beaters who’d burst … More
The Homecoming (Part Two)
He sipped his tea. Black tea in the daytime, green tea at night, right? Or was it the other way … More
Rainy Day Love
the race is on to outrun the raindrops my feet beating the ground faster than they can fall my rhythmic … More
Dinnertime
Charlie calls hogs, eats um, chickens too, royally roasting marbled tunes of time draped in gold and bar-b-que sauce, sweet … More
Black Falling Rain
The white smoke winding cloth about her face, pale cerement, raised off-handed, another Pall Mall cigarette lit, red pack, another … More
As I Write This Title I Am
The thought is not to dwell in the past, or in the future,but to learn to live every moment in … More
The Feud
The Elgin Marbles have stood up well, true, not wasting much under the rude press of time, considering their grief … More
Three, Two, One
He jumps in his car and drives,from the Oakland docks, remember?and drives fastO, Death, Ralph Stanley,running round on a loop, … More
The Taking of Medicine
Dave’s here from Wisconsin, and we’re swimming at Ala Moana Beach,despite the posted bright orange jellyfish warning signs.I’ve assured him … More
Breakfast After a Bad One
Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when … More
A History with Whiskey
Since I’ve retired, I’ve looked for things to do to fill out my routine. One thing I’d never done before … More
The Caretaker – Part Two
So he’d ceased all criminal activity. Immediately. It was like being hit with a magic wand by his fairy godmother. … More
