Destination

I am making the circuit of Little Free Libraries Strung through the neighborhood Like so many literary beads South of Continue reading →

Work history

I left the ice cream shop To work at the mall And I left the mall When college started And Continue reading →

What mornings should be

With the storm windows in The outdoors is muted into irrelevance And the loudest sounds Are the cat purring And Continue reading →

Habeas Corpus

1. I have the body It means I see what you did I have the body, and it blames You Continue reading →

Caesar’s wife

A perfect garden bed Filled with summer blooms That give way perfectly To autumn’s subdued beauty I stood among the Continue reading →

Hubble

On cool mornings I face the summer Crops, giving way to autumn harvest Gone the tomatoes and greens The eggplants Continue reading →

No going back

I never meant to burn the bridge but halfway across someone on the distal shore lit a match

Resilience

There’s a paw-paw tree in my yard Just a few inches high, still It comes back year after year no Continue reading →