Category: poems

• Too Deep

  We learn to dread the rain we need for it comes now in torrents when it comes at all, basements fill and streets fissure from…

• Long View

  The world in which your grandchildren’s grandchildrenrun through the house on the first day it snows will come and it will be like nothing you…

• Rough Beast

  When the new year comes the ground will be the ground and the skies will be the skies and the planes flying higher than a…

• On Election Day

  When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision. The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions. Everyone who…

• Rod McKuen

  The sun finally dropped behind the tree line on an October evening still warm from the day’s golden light and I’m thinking of Rod McKuen…

• Children of Ozymandias

  The Princes hoist their flags above the Capitol dome, fist-bumps for all the children of Ozymandias, they inherit the crumbling empire, sandblasted from sea to…

• Just In Time

  I’m a just-in-time poem, sitting offshore in a shipping container on an uneasy ocean waiting, waiting, waiting for the crane to hoist me high and…

• History Is Not Inanimate

  This past Wednesday a Tennessee legislator stood up in the Tennessee chambers and stated that the Civil War has not ended. That it is still…

• October

  The maple trees along my street hold on to green leaves that ought to be red by now and yellow like the sun that won’t…

• Life Coach

  The life coach wants twenty-two hundred dollars to talk to me on Voxer, meet with me on Zoom, to share the keys to the internet…