When Grandma Wins at Bingo We four get to go To Denny's Fried chicken in baskets A mound of hot crisp fries Our oily fingerprints all over The paper mats The four of us coloring Laughing and gulping Milkshakes And... Continue Reading →
The Well After the drought the well fills fast. Someday there may be birds that sit at the edges, sating their thirst. They will sing sublime melodies and moonlight will skate gently along the borders, skim away in laughing ripples.... Continue Reading →
Through His Lens He frames the world through his lens, directing his subjects this way and that, ordering one gone completely, as if to rewrite history, you were never here, changing whole landscapes with a slight shift of his body,... Continue Reading →
Superior Product An advertising sign blares against a backdrop of blue sky and scattered clouds, drawing the attention of both women and men, now suddenly convinced there is a far superior washing powder to the one they have been using.... Continue Reading →
One Bad Date There is an armadillo underneath the art-house picture frame. It’s holding two blue slushies and an answering machine. No one knows how he got there. By snooping around where the leftover popcorn gets thrown out seems most... Continue Reading →
Gray Hope I fold back our bed sheets this morning to match the rolls of cloud billows sliding like pillows into the naked hot sky. My feet slip to the tuck at the mattress to test the cool slickness that... Continue Reading →
Poetry Breakfast 