I was very sleepy when I wrote this… puppies and cornflakes nothing like living the raspberry dream everyone’s your huckleberry and the sun never sets (3 June 2020) Wishes sometimes have consequences—available to order from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences If they can’t get it for you, you can always find it on [...]
Here we are… Helpless animals held aloft unable to swim unable to sink Air thick with tears helpless animals held aloft Night time voices raised, breaths held air thick with tears Eyes dart back and forth night time voices raised, breaths held The stink the sting eyes dart back and forth The cloud envelops and [...]
Mixed feelings… 1 It’s horrible but I feel a slight sense of relief to be thinking about something that isn’t the virus There’s trouble coming in through the lens disbelief— no one’s thinking about protection against a virus 2 The things we’re seeing are the things we’ve seen before They’re playing the same parts doing [...]
It’s a state of mind… 1 Sometimes it feels like hunger Sometimes it feels like disease Neither sneaks up on me I ease into them deliberately but without deliberation 2 The human form is ripe for exploitation Within Without Fitted in between impulses controlled by the oldest one of all 3 No flash required 4 [...]
Guess what movie I’ve been watching… Barbra Streisand keeps calling Ryan O’Neal “Steve” but it’s endearing, not irritating and the 3o-year-old Barbra is good at comedy with a lightness and soft edges that didn’t survive the curly perm that clung to her for years after it first showed up in A Star Is Born (She’s [...]
Words. no praise not even a nimble switch as the light goes down and colours fade for the night imagine what words she might say that could save you no, there’s no being saved fantasy twists take dark turns orbits only aim to meet somewhere in the middle imagine what words might save you if [...]
This poem has absolutely nothing to do with that thing. A fragrance unnoticed A gesture remembered long after it fades Glances that long but trail off… In the end the turning away (24 May 2020) Wishes sometimes have consequences—available to order from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=wishes+sometimes+have+consequences If they can’t get it for [...]
I am so tired of covid poems—so here is another one… The tense wires and indistinct flutters erase days from the calendar Its page is still opened to March before the topsy-turvy turned America into the land of the empty streets with homes full of the tipsy The one on the end table is still [...]
Deplorables gonna deplore… 1 The paper says fear eats the soul If they printed the letters in reverse no one would know what they were talking about Sort of like now except it wouldn’t be a choice 2 The paper says fear eats the soul They’re not talking about it much but a lot of [...]
A little of this, and a little of that… Often I run out of metaphors or oblique ways to tell truth Emotion flows around the shapes pooling in inconvenient places Light bends, tricking perception irises widen, petals close Sleep comes in a close second not caring—it’s too tired The poem lingers between spaces defying capture [...]
