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 …
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Prayers from Mystery Cave State Park
Praying for PoemsThe words come like answers to prayer flags,or to the prayer on the lips of the old womanas …
Evening at the Lake
Below the slow squall of twilightwater shimmers like mercury.Two dogs reel in the lapping surf,my father pretends to chase them. …
From Mystery Cave
WalkingIt is winter, I am alone on the path.This hard Earth meets each stride with the sting of cold rejection,my …
Dust Bowl
After James Wright It is bare mournful ground.The deep roots are gone.Houses, barns, wagons, hay rakessit empty, hushed, bleached by …
Evening
The night sounds, your voice returning naked, crickets folded into the wall.Fields retreat to their dark creases.Light through the window …
Three More From Mystery Cave State Park
WomanWith heart-shaped legsshe mounts the long stairsto sleep in a shaft of warm light,like some tall dark church on a …
The Night My Fever Broke
After James Wright I could hear him sobbingas with slow trembling handshe carefully packed his bag.Tears streaming, he slouched to …
Storytelling
Characters translucent with heartacheare at war with what it means to be alive.The past is never useless, no day typical.Stories …
Three From Mystery Cave State Park
SpelunkerDeep in the Earth, impregnable silence,darkness consumes my light, my body is a cinder,I am the ashes of loneliness. Background …
Poetry on the run 