The Old Man in the Mist
A lonely path through clouded memories his fading mind once sharp and clear, now lost in hazy fusion, time betrayed by hours no longer counted in his universe. Yet hesitantly climbing misty steps his feet …
Category: Metrical
Pondering at Promontory Point
“May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” – Engraved on the golden spike It was a cloudless day in early Maythat followed years …
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[ Once upon a golden never ]
Once upon a golden neverWas — or not — a perfect landTo whose shores the sea danced gladly,Gently kissed the blessed sand. In that uncorrupted nowhereMountains rose without a threatInto clouds that softly wateredFields on …
Mud and Honey
Her sentimental spirit washes freewhen clay and sediment come sliding down,so if she cries, a man is bound to seea river in her eyes but twice as brown.I hold her breadth of heart in high …
If These Walls Could Talk
There was overarching solace in the greying of the dayas diurnal irritations came unwound.And my bedroom walls were sentinels of quiet to my mind:every worry fell like snowflakes to the ground. As the beach forbids …
A Little Wren in Winter
She flits among the holly leaves,a tiny dappled short-winged wren;she sings with joy above the eaves,announcing hope throughout the glen. Her songs now tell of longer days,of glistening snow and evenings,replete with vibrant trills that …
Conjecture
She has so many questionsand I’m sure she’ll stump me soon.Like why’s the sun so yellowand just how big’s the moon? The curve of the horizonand the work of gravityare there in dusty textbooks,but the …
Lord Owen
Lord Owen lay in far Cathay Upon a spread of faded red With open eyes that didn’t see The smoke-clad snakes of ebony That coiled above his bed, For he was farther than Cathay. He …