Category: poems

• When the Plow Comes

  We knew it would be bad and yet we clung to stupid hope that it would somehow be okay, that someone would come to make…

• River Song

  Living this close I can sometimes hear the song of the river three streets over, two streets down, it happens so seldom that it seems…

• Elegy

  The cat slipped out when I wasn’t looking, found his way to the other side, I came upon him in a dream, sitting in a…

• Solstice 2024

  Maybe you woke at 2 a.m. or maybe you never made it to bed at all on the longest night of the year, you lit…

• Cold Moon

  The boss man’s boss man pleaded to his enablers stop us before we kill again, we do what we do because we can do nothing…

• Bonnie’s Soup

  And into the dwindling remains of Bonnie’s homemade soup is added a cup of orzo discovered in our pantry behind the jar of dried beans…

• Rumi & the Raccoons

  At the Thanksgiving table this year my friend told the story of the raccoons who took up residence in the enclosed space above his front…

• Black Friday

  How curious that it happens now, when the leaves have all been shed and the feast is behind us and we just want to close…

• Drum Circle

  The drumming in the big room woke me from my sleepwalk through another day of elbows and avoidance, the close encounter at the big box…

• So?

  On the Saturday before the election the server at the sushi restaurant handed each of us a beaded bracelet, the candidate’s name spelled out in…