Category: poems

• Reading the Leaves

  She sat with me on the porch and we shared tea from an earthenware pot, a brew of gathered leaves, years of careful selection, berries…

• Lead

  Perhaps it was the leaded gasoline that did it. Gone too late in all our happy motoring, the burnt aftermath lingering in our cells, permeating…

• Cherry Syrup

  I have a few things of yours,dusty in the bottom of a drawerI haven’t opened in years,rags and bits of old news,a birthday card from…

• Alas, Just an Asteroid

  Moments after the words were said aloud for the first time, and the tides turned and the waters parted and the dark was at last…

• Coyote Calls

  Coyote wants to know if you’ve ever seen the desert and you tell him you dreamed it as a child in a bedroom facing west…

• Beautiful Terrible World

  I’ve put together a collection of poems in a little paperback that’s now available on Amazon. Take a look. Kindle and other ebook options are…

• February

  It would have been kinder if you had died in mid-summer, when the Earth is warm and soft, and the rains have subsided and the…

• Waiting for the Chemical Plume

  Things move slowly in the middle of this wide land, the time measured by the inch in fields of gmo corn, things move slowly, the…

• Love Like Water

  Perhaps it is too much to ask of love that it surround us always, that it permeate our days and leave its watermark on all we…

• Poems Like Butter (& Honey)

  I suppose it’s on those mornings when I don’t want to write a poem that I most need to write one. To make my way…