RAGNAROK From words that follow flow nothing new, Frailty is human, despite heavenly view? A fable for futures, a saga now past, On winds...

PERFORMANCE In days when different rituals prevailed and howling storms were on my repertoire to make bedtime a theatrical event, we...

UNTITLED Our love is a temple. I smell your perfume whilst you dress. Still in bed I see your reflection And your silhouette passing in...

Bulletin Board Each morning on the news we hear another threat, currently schools the victims of dissatisfied students eager to pay back...

THOUGHTS WHILE FILLETING A FISH As the lake gulps down the sun, I enter the shadow of my cabin, carrying my fly rod and creel. Clematis...

TANKA Come up from the Pile. Decontaminate, shower, grab a cot, some sleep- Can’t go home today, tonight. Have to dig, find my brother....

Dirt Third grade– Bring your pet to school day. My pet– Sally, the yellow-spotted salamander. Captured in a window well. Kept her in a...

SUCCESS Hair modeled like a dipped cone pace clipped speech honed in finely chiseled tongue hands flash smartly sleeved underscoring...

BEFORE AND AFTER Hard not to speak in elegies, so we are silent as we walk home from the film that has shown us there's no future in...