lost & found in flyover country

mostly poems. published weekly.

  • Package Deal

    If my imagination were not so much a part of me I could write about places less frigid. But I am a package… More.

  • Half an Idea

    Found in a notebook: “Don’t wait for a whole idea. Half an idea or even the slightest hint of an idea is a… More.

  • Late Summer

    The yard is utterly overgrown. I wave to my neighbor through a tangle of grapevine and mow a path alongside the explosion of honeysuckle.… More.

  • If It Breaks

    Was it ever the case that the times weren’t hard and the money wasn’t short? So asked Emerson, friend of Henry by the… More.

  • A Tree is Someone

    They asked us: if a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?… More.

  • Waiting

    I’m too old to feel this way. Or maybe this is the way it feels, no matter what your age. More.

  • Boomers & Stickers

    There are boomers and there are stickers, wrote Wallace Stegner: those who need to go and those who need to stay. The boomers… More.

  • Passengers

    When you’re a passenger in someone’s vehicle and they take a different route to your destination than the one you would have taken,… More.

  • Flood Stage

    All day long it’s been raining. The river is crazy high. Driving home, I saw three news vans parked at a scenic point,… More.

  • No Time at All

    Bodhichitta practice. Slow. No striving. No reaching. We breathe into the heart center and find it armored. Of course it’s armored. We breathe… More.