Drowsy
once upon a nightin a far off land called SleepI fell—I tell you now the taleas best it be remembered'Twas a week of tossing and turning ‘fore that fateful eve…
A Brush with Fate
a paintingof a boyplaying on the beach . . .the sea now swollenswallowing the manMonsieur Beaufont, an aristocrat from Paris, is throwing a housewarming party. He’s just migrated to New…
Center of the Universe
wind playsin fields i once roameda billionblades of grass bendingwith the shifting sky What you saw on that empty hillside many decades ago, I’ll never really know because you carried…
Battle Cry
I tilt my head left to right to left, then forward and back to forward. Roll it around. Shrug my shoulders down, then up, down, then up. Fingers squeeze, stretch,…
Free Ride
fog swirlsover roads once strolledshadows driftingin the folds of my mindforming stories in the gray It’s 9 pm. A truck stop in the distance peers from the dark, welcoming. The…
Movement
for Johanna. halls paintedin dancing candlelight . . .my breathing tunedto the echoesof your footsteps How could a memory from 40-years ago tug at me as yours does now? How…
Following In His Own Footsteps
he tends his dreams'til the break of dawn . . .songbirdsgathering in the fieldsignal it's time to harvestHere, beneath the clouds, a boy feels the first drops of sky dripping…
Slipping Down the Glass Mountain
I embarkon a vision questto find my identitybut forget to bringmy wallet We reach the top of Feather Falls at about 9 a.m. KC explains that it’s one of the…
Firsthand
each budopens to its first day,a leafdancing with the sunlike a lover A soft spring sky hovers over the valley. The rain has come and gone. Without a care in…
marksmanship
a beegathering pollenflower to flowertouches the trigger hairsof a venus flytrap in the din of voices across the crowded room—in the sum of my consciousness—two smiles engage for the briefest…
