John

December 8, 1980 John, your soul is a beam of light shooting across the universe while down here we twist and writhe in the straight jacket of our grief will we? can we ever Imagine again?

Discarded

Discarded a maple chair lies abandoned by the curbside tilting in the rain. Its two good legs dig into the mud like a wounded man struggling to rise It longs to be upright it was once the backbone of hearth and home now it sits forgotten discarded as...

The Dash

the huge oak extends its branches over the pool the dappled light wiggles on the rippling water a lizard makes a dash up the exposed surface of the angled trunk to reach safety and sustenance in the leafy canopy high above a hawk is...

Bipedal Dreams

a pair of running shoes arrive in the mail I try them on for size old tired feet feel coddled by the glove like fit pacing the room I feel free to indulge my bipedal dreams I am the wind I am the fleet- footed messenger for a brief moment I almost believe I can outrun...

The Dig

the dig purging paper getting rid of stuff heartlessly tossing decades of flotsam and jetsam it’s a melancholy business cards, letters, mementos – reminders of the people I’ve fallen out of touch with the names I can no longer put a face to some...

The Choice

cynicism sits on the table like a tall whiskey sour the cool frosty glass tempts me to drink its poison ‘bottoms up, bro, the world is fucked!’ why care? why bother?’ but I can’t see myself as the iconoclast in the corner who mutters empty...