The Ghosts of Jr. High

They advertise the old junior high school now as luxury apartments. A community of renters of classrooms now better used Continue reading →

SPRING – Vol. II

Comes in on muddy skids Ignoring the calendar Shaving its low gray brow Undercover of a high cloudy sky Wet Continue reading →

Morning’s Reflection

FEAR: that invention that keeps us good Believing in that house at The end of a road Paved with distraction Continue reading →

In the Kitchen of Memory

Theirs are the young faces brightened By the garish blue-light of their toys They look up to cast wary, beleaguered Continue reading →

A Country For No Child

There is a country rich in diamonds, Oil and foreign sports cars I know this – having read it in Continue reading →

THE LIFE LIMITED

Not the express The one gladly missed Dawdling on life’s platform Counting cars Windows flashing light Quick, dark faces inert Blank Continue reading →

The Beloved Monster

Walking against the wind Off the lake slows my pace I consider the remnants of The coldest February on record Continue reading →

KITE SEASON

Happiness builds a fast fire Underfoot the running child In fields wild with flowers Laughing, some unknown joy, That life Continue reading →