A Moment During Sunset
An ObservationRife with the evidence and promise of nature,the air is infused with resin and leaf rot.Light splashes a brazen …
An ObservationRife with the evidence and promise of nature,the air is infused with resin and leaf rot.Light splashes a brazen …
Praying for PoemsThe words come like answers to prayer flags,or to the prayer on the lips of the old womanas …
Below the slow squall of twilightwater shimmers like mercury.Two dogs reel in the lapping surf,my father pretends to chase them. …
WalkingIt is winter, I am alone on the path.This hard Earth meets each stride with the sting of cold rejection,my …
After James Wright It is bare mournful ground.The deep roots are gone.Houses, barns, wagons, hay rakessit empty, hushed, bleached by …
The night sounds, your voice returning naked, crickets folded into the wall.Fields retreat to their dark creases.Light through the window …
WomanWith heart-shaped legsshe mounts the long stairsto sleep in a shaft of warm light,like some tall dark church on a …
After James Wright I could hear him sobbingas with slow trembling handshe carefully packed his bag.Tears streaming, he slouched to …
Characters translucent with heartacheare at war with what it means to be alive.The past is never useless, no day typical.Stories …
SpelunkerDeep in the Earth, impregnable silence,darkness consumes my light, my body is a cinder,I am the ashes of loneliness. Background …