Category: poems

• Grand Piano

  The world sat down at the grand piano and played the song I wrote all those years ago when I thought I was leaving, before…

• The Storytellers

  They told me in school that an oral tradition was primitive, left to the lesser ones doomed to be conquered, absorbed and assimilated, or just…

• Manta Ray

  The soft white belly of the oceanic manta ray looks like the sky from below, did you know? I learned it today from a writer…

• Venus in Transit

  The newest of new moons was a mere suggestion in the dark when you stepped out last night to see the bright orb of Venus,…

• Montezuma’s Revenge

  Oh but you don’t understand at all he said you will soon but not nearly soon enough the third reich only needed three months to…

• How to Write a Letter

  My handwriting is interesting to look at and often indecipherable says my friend Helen to whom I write a letter on occasion, when I have…

• Brethren

  The beams in this house stood brethren in the hardwood forest co-mingled with the living and the dead they were tall until they weren’t as…

• Cómo se Dice

  Despite tres años of high school Spanishand years of living among native speakers I cannot have a conversation with the crew that’s come to tend…

• 404

  They said the internet was forever but it turned out to have used itself up in a just a few decades, the digital decay a…

• Obsolete

  We heard it even with our earbuds in, the rumble that told us the water was coming, so much more of it and faster than…