Journey
Light slants in from the West.Everything in the room casts a shadow.Shadows, approximations of truth,scatter like ashes on the carpet. …
Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
Docking the Boat
The boat eases into her winter berth,bouncing from tire to tire.Night falls, the light is gone. A foghorn sounds its …
Lucky 7
Demons holding court, cutting cards,turning tables, spinning rhymes,while angels with heavy wingsblow into their cupped white handsto call up the …
Evening Rain
Trees sway in rhythm with the wind,water slaps stone.Cricket chirps fold into the mist.A gray moon hunts these hillsfor the …
Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
after Richard Rorty Laughteroccurs sporadically, a bit forcedthrough tight lips and tensed jaw.It comes laced with guilty pleasure and rebellion,an …
Certainty
Sunlight drifts through a windowilluminates the wall,except where shadows fall. Certainty flutters in my hummingbird heartwhere the kernel of a …
Nostalgia
A poet said, “it is easier to die than remember.”I say nostalgia is a ribbon,or Jacob Marley’s chains,and we are …
Patterns of Commonplace Words
The known and the unknown, truth and fiction, seen and unseen, something and nothing, it’s a cruel calculus that passes …
Please Clarify
The latest version of me is wondering how to feel at the end of this chain. It’s like sitting in …
Living in the Big Bang
It is impossible to find the beginning again, but still, we need something new, something like the beginning, again and …
Poetry on the run 