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nightmare-tossed he cries out and moon answers 25 Aug 2013 | 03:55 am
Nightmare-tossed, he cries out after dreams of loss unspecified and wakes to light, Moon entering his bedroom unabashed. She creeps toward the bed where he lies quaking still and strokes his brow and ...
rock’n all the way to hell 23 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
you can tell me as you did then that listening to rock’n roll will ride me straight to hell – but i tell you, the day i saw tWist t’ w I s t ’d for the first time i … Continue reading →
a letter, a song, a sounding of silence 18 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
Dear A: Thank you for your letter. You ask how I’m, what’s new, and why I haven’t written. Well, that’s just it. There’s nothing really, much to say. The me you think you know no doubt would spout som...
no one has ever written this… 14 Aug 2013 | 02:04 am
no one has ever written this felt thrill at seeing red again, half- dreaded possibilities sent cursing down a styx* that won’t allow return again this gladness guilted by a gnawing pain of knowing i’l...
a story of HERon 12 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
There’s a HERon in the pond, dead- centre, just above|below the waterline. I’ve seen her fishing, now she’s hiding behind a veil of leaves (not law-enforced, no modesty implied – she’s only shy.) With...
Sunday morning at the café 5 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am
the blueberry scone that’s meant to sweeten morning tastes generic in a starbuck’s sort of way predictable and their bluesy jazz ’z jerkin’ with regurgitated pop the larger store’s mass-feeding to its...
wave 2 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
I wasn’t there and I’ve had loved ones felled without warning but never in a lot like that, never three generations stolen in one single blow of trident Poseidon smashed between snarling plates we’d a...
of two minds, like heron… 28 Jul 2013 | 08:48 pm
I was of two minds, like heron on the lake’s verge gazing back at the cedar that holds her future. A single eagle, bald-faced settles in a nearby pine. ___ I don’t often write form poetry but here tho...
the way i see it pi 22 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
the way i see it, pi is a lot like god, constant but in an infinite sort of way we’ll never fathom, never reach the be-all-end-all, no final number ever falling from that hat, no chance of BINGo! this...
brother love’s traveling salvation show 19 Jul 2013 | 09:50 pm
it wasn’t the heat, wasn’t the hundred in the shade of prairie summer wasn’t, the dimly-visioned jesus we’d been told would be comin’ to our town that day and it was hard goin’ but we pulled our peepe...
