the fatness of fall, her sumptuous melody of texture & hue
structure: noun; a transition to verb
i hear you shuffling towards me / and i sense the impending certainty our lives’ intersection will impose / there will be no cataclysm of personality // only a continued indifference, the yawning chasm of you living your life, me living mine / fruition a thing of longing & beauty // when might we ever pass this way again
threadhopper
tiny things, bursting. molecular studies of grapefruit, clandestine affairs awash in moonlight. you feel me good. i’m not what you used to think i was, i think…
albuquerque. in the glare of a new mexico sun, caballeros with itchy b*lls. red leather fringe suits santa well in the southwest; the old guy dons woolen muffs for venturing into maine or northern minnesota.
door to door vacuum salesman wearies of ringing yet another bell. hey. it’s five o’clock somewhere…
gronk
a shim, a sham
a flim-flam scam
do you fear your life
is just a flash
in somebody else’s
pan,
man?
Pennies for Pilgrims
My prose poem, Pennies for Pilgrims, appears in The Metaworker Literary Magazine, published August 9th. Please check it out!
And THANK YOU for looking!!
The Wailing Side of Town
My poem, The Wailing Side of Town, has been published on the latest issue of Anti-Heroin Chic.
Please check it out and, as ever, THANK YOU for looking!
Poet
My poem, entitled Poet, is featured in the new issue of Into the Void. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea but I hope you’ll enjoy it nonetheless. As ever, THANK YOU for looking!
The High Life
My poem The High Life appears in the spring issue of The Briar Cliff Review. It was written in celebration of fond yet weary memories of the days that followed after my father built The Timber Inn, a local watering hole – a clever play on words for my daddy, the sawyer.
I hope you will enjoy it.


Game Night
My haibun poem, Game Night, was recently published on The Disappointed Housewife journal site.
Please check it out and thanks for looking! I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Shimmer
Gauzy recognition
vague eureka moments
Ah! This is what life has to offer.
Then ~ blink.
Dingy gray-tones surround us.
We press onward,
arms outstretched. Eyes wide open.
The foggy dimness ever present hovering,
waiting.
Curl up, surrender, trudge on ‘til death?
No.
We hope, anticipate, strive for more
always more.
Reach
for more.
And, still, more again…



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