You don’t mind staying? they asked. Do you want anything? Some coffee, maybe? I’m fine, I say And they left for dinner, the brothers and their families I sat next…
Category: poems
Reach
I reach up to find that Time has reduced my harvest shrunk my field and left what stalks remain gray and brittle I reach to the middle and find that…
Careless
I have been careless I have filled my bag to overflowing It is hard to carry along the way Like a serpent who has just eaten a rabbit I leave…
A pendulum inside
There is a pendulum inside of me. Some days it swings toward me disappearing and some toward me devouring. Today I start another climb toward the pendulum’s root where I…
Tricksters
We didn’t know he would be the Trickster refusing to appear when it was time The doctor would have to cut a door to coax him out Sure knew how…
To skin a cat
1. Off the cliff to razor rocks 2. Table saw in Grandpa’s shop 3. Whirring silver blender blades 4. Skidding to a stop 5. Needle under furry nape 6. Blackberries…
Mystery
See also this piece.
Digger
What it does is dirty
My Arse Poetica
A parody of Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poetica”
Traci
What I remember about Traci