What did the grouse hear as the Father talked to his Son — what did it hear in the reassuring speech, practiced over a glass of rye, in the repetition of “I will always love you”? Walking among the thin ground cover, random and haphazard, the mottled markings passed on from grouse to grouse as…
I’m anonymous
I’m anonymous — I like it that way I know who you are — I like you my prey I take what I want — destroying the rest I learned a long time ago — it’s easiest creating my code — that makes me smart opening doors — now that’s my art I think I’m…
Home
I am home — home — in a word home — in my name — home in your word — home — I hear near — here home — an inn with a breakfast — in — bed a place — plates — for two a piece — fragments — shifting to individuals — apart…
Thirteen
Bring me 13 Feathers of a songbird murdered 12 Broken promises weathered by ice 11 Frozen bubbles caught in the snow’s demise 10 Shattered branches sheared below 9 Blunt blades of dead autumn grass 8 Empty acorns buried deep in hunger 7 Drowsy blood-filled mosquitoes woken by the equinox 6 Maple leaves turned to mud…
A Hammer
It was gift from my father “It’s yours” it’s weight — all his life in toil — beaten and chipped like the burden he carried on his shoulders now bent with bursitis. “Take this” his shouts when he swung framing 2x4s into tight places “Take this hammer” to build your life — it was not…
Red Sky Tonight …
My lips are painted with the red sky tonight … she has kissed me hard pressed against the weather pane — I’m twisting in her words, full-sail, piercing air, a dappled blanket sheathes a sorceress’ spell spoken Burn me, melt me, make me whole, cleanse from me a darkened soul, calm my waters in a…
School-Day Mornings
6:30 — Mom wakes me — I love Mommy and Mommy loves Me 6:31 — Pull the covers over my head and wait for her to remind me at 6:35 6:35 — Reminder 6:36 — Lights are turned on and curtains flung open — sun unfairly attacks my head 6:36 — Pillow over head for…
Slammed: Fatherhood
[author’s note: read this poem aloud for full effect] I was slammed as soon as I walked through the door in the weeds, so deep in the weeds that I couldn’t tell the dandelions from the nasturtiums from heads of romaine I was on the line before I knew it on the line, way down…
Would You?
If you could read my mind would you say yes? If I tipped the barista at the bar would you know my character? If I opened the button of my collar would your eyes brighten in a smile? If I spoke my body in word would you melt with my eloquence? If I took an…
Platform of Surrender
I’m crawling on your shores It was all a dream — I woke up like this Up on the platform of surrender Abandoned on a beach that is a dessert so I drank from a fountain of mirage now I’m crawling on your shores My hands are cold drawing hearts in the sand on my…
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