Admonish
Am I a stupid, silly man?...
That's Messed Up...
I put together this starter pack of 90s rock videos for my daughter Marilyn...
A Walk Downtown
I tried the door of a restaurant but it was locked. I went somewhere else to eat...
Mary Oliver
It was the birthday of Mary Oliver two days ago. Oliver passed in 2019. I am just now discovering...
The Metaphysical Club
“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an officer in the Union Army. He stood six feet three inches tall..."
Post Colonial Love Poem
“I've been taught bloodstones can cure a snakebite, can stop the bleeding—..."
Gideon, The Ninth
“IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying,..."
Klara and the Sun
“When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window...."
The Overstory
"First there was nothing. Then there was everything..."
Sabbath Poems, XI.
To give mind to machines, they are calling it
out of the world, out of the neighborhood, out of the body...
Gasoline
"O anti-verdurous phallic were't not for your pouring weight looming in tears..."
Laced
That time of year...
Dancing at the Rascal Fair
“To say the truth, it was not how I expected—stepping off toward America past a drowned horse."...
Clean Underwear
Couldn't row this morning so I took a long looping walk through downtown...
Windsock
Every morning @5 am, I look out my kitchen window to check this flag...
Socked In
Socked in like a New England lobster fisherman. It looks like snow blowing by but...
Club
We have challenges enough, do we not? With every day presenting its difficulties, a multitude of...
The Mower
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
America
"Bang. You're dead."
Unwokened
I called her beautiful, although I don’t believe she heard it.
But others did, and so began, a little trial with a verdict...