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 Case of the Eternal Adolescents

The Hardy boys never had sexNever produced progeny to perpetuate the detective family dynastyNo junior detectives carrying on the family traditionFrank … More

Night Watch

They sat and smoked the cigarettes they’d rolledLaughing softly about the way the grass grew hereCompared to how it waved … More

Hauntings

I see the scene of resting that night poorlyThe fitful 2:00 a.m. dead of a Madison nightOutside a Lutheran church … More

How We Grow

Magical, the way our lives danced like a fairytale spinningCharmed amalgam of fantasy, dream, and highest heartsMy good fortune our … More

Shifting Sands

It should be calm here and soothing as the waves break tonightBut there’s a tension, not romantic, in their rigid … More

A hui hou (Until we meet again)

The last time I heard Hawaiian music in WaikīkīIt was a quiet night at Blue Note before the pandemic struck … More

Days Short

I’ve watched them from where I sitThe ghosts of summer runningThe children fresh onceGrown and gone rainbowssplashed to gray laughterSplit … More

It Had To Be True

It’s the small talk in the night. Lying side by side. Whispering back and forth about what’s passed or what’s … More

Slipping

Watching the Packers this afternoon, I flash on my first date in the New Year of 1978, Madison, Wisconsin. Back … More

First Love

Been there Can tell you exactly howIt’s hoped to be this one, the oneAnd wow, this is itTwo people foundDon’t … More

That Restless Feeling

The wind moans all night through, groans soLove made for hours with surrounding treesSwaying together far past the point of … More

Porta Bella

I see you always, a glass of red wine dangled in your hand before you,reclining luxuriously in an overstuffed chair, … More

The Apple Doesn’t Fall

Few apple trees will fruit this latein fall, but I do see a fewin the far misting distance,the children I’ve … More

Beyond Pain

Someone I loved, I heard the other day,a woman I’d known in my Madison years,had battled Parkinson’s for ten long … More

I’m Listening Still

“I don’t see it that way,” you say, and I begin the wonder why.We sit cross legged on the floor … More

Disillusion

After all, once you’ve discovered something that’s important enough,learned all about a subject that eventually shapes your entire world,found a … More

The Boy Who Stayed

My strongest wish – I’ve never thought so hard about it –this first day of the New Year, 2023, the … More

Latte Days

She sells coffee as a living at 22 young years,this whip-smart barista with the green hairtoday, red hair yesterday, and … More

For a Moment

They’re all young, blonde university students,have an intelligent look, wear sweatshirts,NYU, Brown, Syracuse, places that requireacademic effort prior to entry, … More