Shepherd
Now you will shepherd lost things and they will follow you through every airport, crowd every interview, every dinner, every …
Category: Free Verse
Porcelain Manger
November Last time I stuffed a turkeyyou were sucking a burnt pinkyconfiding secrets about Uncle Carland reminding me of the importance of …
Entourage
I could let them all go, the letters pencilshands and scheming numerals;only they and I would feel a difference.I would …
Silent Symphony
With leisurely pause,admiring its own reflectionin the faint ripples of a quiet stream,a rising sun considerswith what tints, to paint this …
Neruda’s Tasks
Like above and below, my duties achedto converge. One was to climb all the waydown to the bottom of …
Run-On Sentence
The black bowl of heaven looming over us was freckled with ten thousand stars, which, despite the marvelof their brilliancecrossing the universefor …
It’s Hard to Explain
Ants will visit every feast.If the potato salad has mustard and sweet pickles,I can put up with crawlers.And if I …
she even looked a bit like you
outside the port-a-johnleaning on the livestock penstrapped between twin stenchesI hold your purse like a used tissue “don’t go anywhere!”so I …