DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

I don’t want your                                 Continue reading →

Comes the Fate Upon Us: Taking Adversity Seriously

December 17, 2016 I’ve just read a summation of our president’s news conference on Russia’s hacking of the election that 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 →

GO THERE!

We live so long – hopefully long enough To know life is enough All we should want The rest is Continue reading →

CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY – NORTH: A Bed Sheet Sign on an Overpass

Through what strange porthole do we     Drag our outsized dreams     All the while cursing its size Continue reading →

MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE?

I write because I cannot dance. Oh, I can shake a hip or two, moving my hands to suggest I Continue reading →

THE VOODOO OF OLD PHONEBOOKS

Phones and houses with numbers Archives of human transcendence and failure Side by side An inexact science Names obliterated Collide Continue reading →

OLD AGE

When Is it time to Consider death? Useful for nature Troublesome for the heart Navigation lights preset Trumpeting the intractable Continue reading →