Do You Hear Them?
A Short Poem Uncommon Heart I first saw my heart hanging in the sky and cried, “Share your secrets, Uncommon Heart.” I was born that day yet those w...
Category: Poetry
Was It Last Night or a Life Ago?
A Poem Was It Last Night or a Life Ago? Was it last night or a life ago? When I was an old, frightened Pharaoh turning in hapless circles like a wounded ape— my...
Conversation with a Dog
A Short Poem Conversation with a Dog Me: Melancholy creature whose master is man, we are none without our overlords. Let us weep—you and I together— for our inh...
100 Day Project Three – Day 31
DAY 31 (February 5th, 2018) ice drops remain long after frozen rain fell on an open umbrella a bulwark heavy against all that is hurtful the sun may one day mel...
100 Day Project Three – Day 28, 29 and 30
DAYS 28, 29 and 30 (February 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2018) DO YOU HEAR THEM? Do you hear them? You spoke those words in your youth, and still they are written, penned...
100 Day Project Three – Day 27
DAY 27 (February 1st, 2018) A KISS I feel a kiss flutter between us— a timid butterfly Our lips don’t touch Not a kiss, as such— &...
100 Day Project Three – Day 26
DAY 26 (January 31st, 2018) LIFE AND DEATH There is life and death in life— in every verdant hillside in every fallen bridge in every caught fish in wine ...
100 Day Project Three – Day 25
DAY 25 (January 30th, 2018) LABORERS One day, you’ll walk like her— like a broken marionette. It is your pain she feels— feel you her pain tha...
100 Day Project Three – Day 24
DAY 24 (January 29th, 2018) NATURE What is nature now? Fenced into tiny plots like unseemly monsters— starved prisoners— All of it belongs to man no...