Learning Again It has been so long since I gathered shells I’m not sure I know anymore how it’s done. Which ones do you reach for? How many do you keep? How slowly should you make your way down the... Continue Reading →
Free-Box I am not above stooping, free-box food as good as any other, the shampoo in half-used bottles still shampoo, a set of tea lights with only two missing, a cable sweater with a faint stain I’d put in the... Continue Reading →
Elegy The wildflowers run their purple flags. Fields are castaways. The crescent moon is unattached again. No stardust. No clouds. You think you’ll keep the memories of lovers inside your pocket for easy travels, but apparitions run like mice across... Continue Reading →
Ordinary Moments Again, the hummingbird is buzzing over the sugar water. Again, the coyote is crossing the road. Again, the deer are feeding in my yard. One breath Then another Belonging To Sand Time stops here Terns... Continue Reading →
detroit sketch #1 (for m.l.) looking closely i now see the chevys fords chryslers lining these streets like paupers standing in soup lines years ago everyone really did still believe in this. they bought the cars. they embraced history. they... Continue Reading →
Breaking Glass on the Way to Accidentally Falling in Love We were lost somewhere in Ohio and it was dark and our phones were dead but we’d stocked my car with bad decisions and booze even though we were already... Continue Reading →
Poetry Breakfast 