just before moonrisea stoatwaits for theshrike to impaleits prey on thethorns of the pyracantha. not above a bit of petty theft,the cat sneaks off with an appetizer. Published on The Laundry Line, 7 Oct, 2025.
Category Archives: miscellany
Supplication
SupplicationWe need a patron saint for the banana boxes that they pack your groceries in down at Costco,… for boys in backwards ball caps,… for velcro shoes and old men with wraparound sunglasses.We need a patron saint for poets the ones without faith and the ones with scars from teenage acne, … for body oil, …
The Thing about Hallmark
Why is everybody so down on Hallmark? Aren’t we inarticulate enough without denying us the chance to have someone help us to speak?
Arrival
It’s always night when I arrive. The little Embraer 145 lands and shudders to a heavily braked stop at the end of the runway. Then turns and taxis back toward the terminal. Where an air-stair is wheeled up to the side of the plane and we, the passengers, descend. The air is warm and damp, …
Unintentional Poetry
Every now and again I rediscover some long forgotten corner of my vasty web empire and have to clean out an overgrown comments moderation queue. For a while there was a rash of spam comments made up of seemingly random bits of strung together prose. They stopped appearing a couple years ago. But I recently …