Night Drive When we felt the sun sink into Smuggler’s Cove we met dead pirates plotting and for treasure we dove. When we smelled stars in the sky above Joy Valley Street we devoured cakes made of laughter then floated... Continue Reading →
New Constellations The past’s signpost casts a crooked shadow. I’ve done lost-scout-in-the-woods- comes-full-circle-round more than once back to that jagged stile. I paint that post blue with gold letters that point to tomorrow and plant a sweet potato vine for... Continue Reading →
Home Coming To go back to your hometown and find it doesn’t recognize you. To see your old house bedraggled like hand-me-downs left to Goodwill – gutters stripped, azaleas gone for no good reason except it’s not your home. To... Continue Reading →
The Internet Is So Big It Swallows Me is there any way I can eliminate all self-doubting phrases and unnecessary approximations from my vocabulary without coming across as inaccessible? please advise. I got to my first class late this morning... Continue Reading →
One Million Solar Masses Crows, murderous and coughing, leave the evening wire meeting with an arrhythmic beating no body could contain. I forget the slow work of machines until a mole turns over some dirt, miniature and persistent in its... Continue Reading →
Quantum Entanglement What I tell my shrink. My favorite drug: A piece of chocolate wrapped in foil with the words, eat me written on it. “Chocolate isn’t a problem for most people.” What if that chocolate is a black hole?... Continue Reading →
Poetry Breakfast 