Ennui I am a wall. I circle in tight corners, level and square. I have no door. I've been bleeding out all over the house. I can walk up and down stairs tens of times. My powers of distraction are... Continue Reading →
Reading Seamus Heaney While Watching Baseball Funeral in Derry shouldering my father's casket. Fastball on the outside corner catches the cleanup hitter looking. Grandfather cuts sod, downing a pint of milk amidst green, rolling fields. Batter tops ball toward third... Continue Reading →
Dying Compass we travel as unthinking as clouds sailors with our skin rooted to the ship seashells loving the freedom brought of decay the sky and the sea weld together in our drift we are calm, of few emotions, both... Continue Reading →
Why I Still Have Hope For Humanity is because on a train this morning packed so tight with heart pounding humans of every stripe from chest to beating chest our arms could not be raised, though the filmy heat of... Continue Reading →
At Rest He can be found at the cemetery most afternoons for as long as he can stand the heat, or the cold. By the hour he sits there on a small iron bench in sight of her grave. It... Continue Reading →
I Fumbled in the Darkness for My Wings But they were broken. So I abandoned flight, and took to walking, though “maps” and “destinations” were unfamiliar to me. I’m looking for an adventure, now, in my wingless, flightless state. So... Continue Reading →
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