July 29, 2021August 1, 2021"Short Story", Human Condition, Moments of Life 210. Rising revelry, below the ceiling-fans: orgiastic music. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 28, 2021August 1, 2021"Short Story", Collecting the soil..., I was there..., Moments of Life, Nature 209. for the mother robin How can we eat meat? I ask, as the hawk’s talons clasp the writhing bird. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 6, 2021August 2, 2021"Short Story", Favorites, I was there..., Moments of Life, Nature 187. Bats flitting through the raindrops. The pings, amidst the trees — a gentle gray. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 7, 2021June 8, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life, Self-Realization 158. for B.P. The days, the weeks, the months and years, have led me here, to this craft-brewed beer. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 2, 2021June 3, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 153. “Here,” I said, handing her the poem. “I wrote this just now for yesterday. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 12, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature, Pandemic 132. for the tick I found on my neck “I’m sorry you were born into this,” I sigh — prayers before the murder. […] Read more
April 24, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life, Political / Social 114. Shuffling to the table’s edge, the breakfast — hesitant to meet our gaze. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 20, 2021April 29, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 110. “Cats?” he asks, changes into Don Corleone. “I can get you cats.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 12, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Human Condition 102. I have the conversation in my mind — answering for the both of us. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 10, 2021June 4, 2021"Short Story", Nature 100. The shriveled leaves that survived the freeze — still afraid to let go — to sneeze. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 8, 2021April 29, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 98. dozing off — pen above a yawning page, eager for a dream Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 4, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 94. When my flashlight’s beam cuts ‘cross the green, I see the sage gremlin waiting. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 3, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 93. “The Giving Bench” for Shel Silverstein “Here, sit on me,” said the bench. “Watch the sun nudge the yawning spring awake.” Love0 Share […] Read more
April 2, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 92. The unsaid dancing on the table, between the plates and silverware. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 26, 2021March 28, 2021"Short Story", To the Masters 85. for Wallace Stevens The iceman groans with cracking bones — stretches in the oppressive, spring sun. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 22, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 81. for the trippers trying to fall asleep the suffocating vibration of the dread drums — so close now, your chest Love0 Share […] Read more
March 21, 2021March 26, 2021"Short Story", Human Condition, Moments of Life 80. We’re too old to tip-toe ‘cross the railroad bridge, but it feels good to feel. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 20, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Nature, Political / Social 79. Spring Equinox — the first party of the year stumbles out the window. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 17, 2021March 20, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 76. It feels like I’m traveling in a vast sea: roaring monsters, dark complete. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 15, 2021March 21, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life, Nature 74. Overhead, the passing crow’s caws give me pause… I inhale, keep walking. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 14, 2021March 21, 2021"Short Story", Human Condition, Moments of Life 73. Barely discernible — grass slightly less thick where home plate used to be. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 7, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition 66. Her life a museum of unrealized dreams, collecting the dust of stars. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 2, 2021March 7, 2021"Short Story", Favorites, Moments of Life 61. Half your face sheathed in shadow — the other bathed in waning night. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 1, 2021March 7, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 60. I watch you fade into the fog ahead; details obscured to white. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 17, 2021February 21, 2021"Short Story", Human Condition, Self-Realization 48. “Was it worth it?” she asks. “I don’t know: I’m too close to the fire to tell.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 14, 2021February 15, 2021"Short Story", Moments of Life 45. And then she said, “Loss seems like the trade-off for good a lot of the time.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 11, 2021February 13, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 42. wandering sanitized aisles carts full of together alone Love1 Share Tweet Read more
January 30, 2021January 31, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life 30. A plastic red wagon sits idle, waiting for nap time to end Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 26, 2021January 27, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 26. I wish I kissed you that night — that moon-painted pier: half-shadow, half-light. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 23, 2021January 24, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 23. five clothespins clutch the fraying laundry line — the story they tell Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 12, 2021January 13, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Favorites 12. Doll, half-naked, unblinkingly reflecting the empty room — spilt tea. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 4, 2021January 5, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, I was there... 4. I was there… Newstead Abbey. Midday rain streaks Boatswain’s grave. Byron’s Abbey standing solemn vigil. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 3, 2021January 3, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, I was there..., Moments of Life 3. I was there… Villa Diodati. These and more are the thoughts that haunt me, on this bench in Diodati. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 2, 2021January 3, 2021"Short Story", Self-Realization 2. I wake in the new year; iron out my crumpled shirt of a life. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 26, 2020December 30, 2020"Short Story", Human Condition, Moments of Life 361. I rub my nose on the nape of his neck. “Yes, I will die,” I sigh, “but…” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 24, 2020December 30, 2020"Short Story", Human Condition, Self-Realization 359. When you first see the finish gleam… it’s easiest to succumb to dreams. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 19, 2020December 30, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 354. She asks ’bout the kids as I add up the tip — both playing our parts. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 15, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Self-Realization 350. I woke unsure if it was Sunday or Monday. It’s Tuesday. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 14, 2020December 14, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Moments of Life 349. Sharpener filled with shavings; paper full of emptiness. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 26, 2020November 26, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Moments of Life 331. Past the window – in the old, gnarled tree – the Troll King grins — still-watching me. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 20, 2020December 30, 2020"Short Story", Health & Wellness, Moments of Life 325. for Bernard Lionel Einbond Our first kiss begins under streetlights; ends beneath your dawn-dyed sheets. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 19, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 324. The afterimage of your silhouette against my sun-stained eyes. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 16, 2020November 18, 2020"Short Story", Health & Wellness 321. “What is art,” I ask my shoe. “Anything that moves my sole,” it replies. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 14, 2020November 18, 2020"Short Story", Human Condition, Moments of Life 319. I drop a seed of poetry into the […] Read more
November 11, 2020November 18, 2020"Short Story", Health & Wellness, Nature, Pandemic 316. for Mother Earth “Don’t worry about me,” she says, “I’ll be here long after you’re dust.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 23, 2020October 30, 2020"Short Story", Self-Realization, To the Masters 297. for Samuel Beckett All the poems I lost over the bridge. I watch, nothing to be done. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 21, 2020October 22, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 295. 2 a.m. Just lonely me and the ghosts that never show. Love0 […] Read more
October 4, 2020October 8, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 278. I drove past the roads of my past… eventually, reached a one way street. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 3, 2020October 8, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life, Nature 277. for God A bee drowning in my drink. I extend a stem to save it — god. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 24, 2020August 28, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 237. First mistake on the first page of my first notebook in months. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 21, 2020August 28, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters 234. for Haruki Murakami At the bottom of a deep, dark well – I am become a shadow. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 13, 2020August 14, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 226. Kneeling on the floor; my timid plate of dinner, acquiescing fork. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 10, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 223. I lay staring through her foreground’s brown blurry curls— past the ceiling: stars. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 8, 2020August 10, 2020"Short Story", Nature 221. Watching cloud shadows from this hilltop… The only thing missing is you. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 20, 2020July 21, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 202. The weary jukebox singing the same tired songs of what could have been. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 14, 2020July 15, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 196. for Jacques You look up and smile like a short story I read a long time ago. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 10, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Favorites 192. “You have to let go,” she whispered, sun obscuring her to silhouette. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 12, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Favorites, Nature, To the Masters 164. for Mary Oliver “Please stop ascribing your pathetic fallacies on me,” piped the rose. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 11, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Self-Realization 163. “I’m here… Still waiting… You know there’s only so much time,” quipped the blank page. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 8, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Favorites 160. Ebb and flow. A tug and a pull. Yesterday, so bleak, today so full. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 5, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Nature 157. A fresh made bed, through a door, down a hallway, in a house, on a street. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 1, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 153. Her posture. Her hat. The arch of her shoulders and the slope of her back. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 21, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 142. I closed my eyes with arms spread wide – and pretended to pretend to fly. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 13, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters 134. for Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses belches, scratches his belly, gazes longingly to sea. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 20, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters 111. for Lewis Carrol How convenient to explain away the fantasy with a dream. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 15, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters 106. for Helen I would launch these ships again for but one last kiss of your trembling lips. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 13, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 104. We both had a choice… We both took hesitant rights and ended up left… Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 7, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Human Condition, Moments of Life 98. Their house was full of undreamt dreams, neatly displayed, waiting to be dreamt. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 6, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters 97. for Erica Jong 1. The poem stalks towards my motionless palm, sniffs a couple times — then runs. 2. I feign […] Read more
April 5, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Moments of Life 96. Last night I dreamt of my dead father – he grabbed me and shook me awake. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 30, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Favorites 90. She answers back, “Loss seems like the trade-off for good a lot of the time.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 26, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Favorites 86. I read the note you gave me in front of David; glanced behind me – once. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 9, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Favorites, To the Masters 69. for Jack Kerouac Splashed madness walls of dripping paint […] Read more
March 7, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Nature 67. Each day I pass the dead fox in the road — each day less of its remains. Each day I pass the […] Read more
March 3, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters 63. for Margaret Gibson Because the threads are torn and fraying; I keep it hidden in my trunk. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 11, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story" 42. My tentative tip lingers above the page – coaxing timid thoughts. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 28, 2020June 16, 2020"Short Story" 28. I came across your picture… I wiped it off and whispered, “Sorry…” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 13, 2020June 16, 2020"Short Story" 13. All that’s left in my waking breath are fast-fading dreams – and a sore neck. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 12, 2020June 16, 2020"Short Story" 12. This is a great fort table: drape sheets over the sides and crawl under. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
