News — October 2021Dear Joe, I am sorry that I forgot to call you on Sunday.The weather here is changing;summer is ending;tomorrow the first fall storm arrives.The trees aren’t turning color so much as losing color.The ferns bend under the weight of the rain that drops from the trees.Leaves fall into the mud and become …
Category Archives: Poetry
Lines on Superman
Lines on SupermanIt’s a bloody nightmare.I cannot spurnyour delight in my (im)purethoughts. There is no way to sparemy heart. Like a spearyou spanmy days with your mean,mean, wicked heart and I am spunaround and smear(ed)with love. Published on The Laundry Line, 28 October, 2025.
Moonlight Mistaken for Safety
Moonlight Mistaken for Safety Behind the Chinese restaurant,the moon is reflected in a puddle of greasy water.It is the perfect moon for me—this reflection of a reflection.It lights the down-turned face of the busboy grabbing a quick smokebefore he is called back to clear the tables in the banquet room. The noisy wedding party has …
Eavesdropping
EavesdroppingI hear, I overhear,I listen to the swallows, the creek, a truck climbing the hill.their songs collide and spill over the dam of my ears.I hear the dawn song of the birds, the dusk songof the little frogs, the night songs, all the night songs. Owls call to their mates and trees creak as they …
track and field
track and fieldthere was a guy in high school.who threw the shot,he had his own weird dance.it began with the cold metal tucked under his chin the thud of his first step a spiraling, rising action until the sphere was thrust away shoved outto meet the world. pushing through the air to land in the …