Month: June 2024
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Poem of Photosynthesis I
When we’re togetherthe cliché is we are one—competing till death.The light strokes the needle, enticing its chemical reaction, as the…
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Sand is Eternal
It doesn’t take long really—sand has a beginninga starting point of rock and waterbut it has no endwhether it be…
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Not New Year’s
Light fragments the creek.Mayflies dancein new warmthand the shifting canopy is rifewith call and responseacross octaves.Staccato, trills, decomposed chords.Bullfinch, sparrow,…
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Gales at Night
It is dark and I hear someone cryingas if in pain,then angry.It is the rising wind.Heavy rain hits the window,like…
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Meander: Larry McMurtry at the Driskill Hotel
This short meander is long on time. It is about serendipity, or parallel thinking, or the patterns we will ourselves…
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Scheherazade
sweet teller, you spin the bones of a good talebut it’s not for you to tell my lifewhen I’m dead.…
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A New Shore
after Farnez FatemiFriends, let’s fishfor hope, gather itinto our nets. Store the best catchbefore we steer to shore.Loop a line…
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Tight
parallel parking spotswhen I’mthe one driving the space between an earnest comment and unwelcome advicebutton-fly jeansleft in the dryer too…
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The Countess of Getty
Portrait of Anne, Countess of ChesterfieldThomas Gainsborough, 1777-78Oil on CanvasJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles She steps in frontof the…
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When I Met Grace
Deep stares and tangled hairWe gaze into the reflective majestic mirage of a dark forestShe is an abnormality in the…