A jumble of memories from 1988… The angels smiled upon us that summer at least, for a little while Temptations were everywhere leading us back to each other something of a miracle itself Everywhere the sun rained down department stores with their open doors beckoned us with blasts of cool air No need—we’d keep walking [...]
Tag: temptation
Whirlwind tour (A poem)
Back to the pantoum again. (Note that, although there is an actual word, carbonnade, that refers to Flemish beef stew, carbonade in this poem is a made-up word.) What from the carbonade tempts you to follow at such close distance when fifty percent don’t know who sent you enough to care about your view askance to follow at [...]
Turning back to the path I thought I was on before life took me somewhere else (A poem)
Writing epistles is harder than I thought it would be. So far, I feel like I’m ending up with a really bad ‘artist’s rendering’… There’s an old photo on your wall of a diner somewhere on the coast No place you’ve ever been— a gas station probably stands there now There’s a picture of you on the [...]
A morning poem (a poem)
The January 16th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to come up with a list of ten words each about oil and snow, then to alternate a word from the two lists in each line of a poem until all the words have been [...]
Dream, Interrupted
…so close I could taste you. The touch of your skin still lingered upon my fingertips… My heart raced; the moment— THE moment— was here. At last. Then— loud noises from the other room, the laughter of a joyful, boisterous conversation broke through the bubble of our intimate embrace… We paused. I woke up from [...]
