Please Deliver This to Heaven
a poem for the ear.so many faces to light upas yours, many times i’ve seen. first,rehearsal. read each verse aloudtinker to-and-fro with the wordsstumble here and there through the syllablestwist…
Circus, Circa 1995
step right up, folks; take a rideon the living, breathing, seething, screamingroller coaster spend your dimesfly highbut don’t be latefor the indoctrination pass the milk, please, Katand have a tin…
Sunshine
Sunshine Hey you! How have you been these long years?Where are you now?Did you find love and embrace it hard?Just wondering, do you ever think of me?For 40 years you…
Baptism by Fire
Spring 2016 — Winter 2017what was it we said to each otherbefore parting waysin that Madison hotel room?me, chained motionless to my shadowthe walls caving in out of the darkness’til,…
Headfirst
a field of grassin flames…the commercialfor aspirinpromises relief Cigarette burns in his shirt, the flaws of habit. Beard and hair unkempt, he doesn’t look in the mirror anymore. Empty pizza…
Tapestry
Sweet Rachelle, your first eager glance has lasted all these years. I sit with it now and wonder, what has become of you? I feel your inspiration well inside of…
Navigation
all the loves i've ever known—women and men—i loved you all . . . completely. you're the symphony of wind that carries me now to uncharted destinations, you propel me…
Switchboard
Not too long ago, we were connected by wires. The wires went to places. We had to be at those places if we wanted to spend time with other people…
Life in a Washing Machine
Wrapped around your finger, like a towel around an agitator. Lost my glasses in the dishwasher looking for you. The blow-dryer went out with a bang and now my hair…
Last Bucolic Moment
downwind from the cattle ranch, cooking hash on a campfire, smells like nuclear fallout, the time for mourning the cows—over and done—we milked the last one before slicing her throat…
