Poem, for Earth Day
My breath from the trees. My liquid from the oceans. My feet upon the earth. Each day, each...
Dogs of Spring #1
Late afternoon walk in what feels and looks like late November instead of April. The puppies were happy...
Poem – Pain
The night falls quickly as the sun escapes the horizon and reaches across the calm sea to the...
Words and Actions – Revisited for 04/18/15
Back in 2009, I had a short story published at Whispering Angel Books about my grandfather. It was...
Poem – Reminiscent
As the months melt away into weeks and days the memories become stronger bouncing from everywhere fast and...
Poem – Daydream
Hours become days and the tasks I desire succumb to the ones I dread and I sit here...
Poem – Apathy
With an apathetic look in tired eyes he turned away from the edge, hundreds of feet above the...
Poem – Infinity
Removed from the city even for an afternoon layers of stress and blocks fall away, replaced by what...
Poem – Authentic
I believe who we are when our eyes first open and light through half-drawn blinds washes over our...
Poem – Watching
The sleepy sun is just raising one eye when we walk onto the patio, one dog on each...
Poem – Release
I awoke – from the ocean pushed deep from the waters weight I could not breath, I could...
Poem – Renewal
The dirt path changed to stone and as time passed I lost my place. Emerging from one realm...
Poem – Shadow
Scattered dreams forgotten at first light. A vague cloud follows. Trees bend at impossible angles the air wavers...
Ice Child, by John Haines
Cold for so long, unable to speak, yet your mouth seems framed on a cry, or a stifled...
Poem – Perseverance
Storms rolled through last week. Weak and old trees toppled to the ground or fell into a neighbor...