A New Season
God’s light shines through nature,We walk the fieldsWe walk the pathsWe walk the roadsSeeBeauty surrounds usIf we take time to seeIf we walk...
A Letter from Gibs to Gabby
This is kind of personal. Should this letter to Gabby fall into your hands, I suggest you don't read it. If you do, do me a favour, forget it soon after. If...
God in All of This
A long-dead moth, sunburnedto a brown wrapping paper facsimileof Moth, depends upside downby a back leg from a drop lineof spider silk between the...
The Last Night
This would be the end. Gutenberg thought this as he hunched over piles of flawed moveable type, trying to forget that this was his last night in the shop....
Caesural Leaps – Elegy for ‘Mad Mac’ MacDonald
My 23rd Birthday was at your mom’s. DryAviation Gin in Solo cups. Nick filchedRum from his own mussied mom. Rich beamed atKeeping tally on our drinks, sans...
2020 Sunsets - December - “Ray of Morning Hope”
Introduction: The ‘stay at home’ regimen of 2020 due to the pandemic had many down sides, but it did have one upside for myself. Staying at home gave me the...
Where Monsters Wait
How deep was once the ocean?How perilous was once the sea?Unknown dangers graved the monstrous depth.From crow’s nests mateswatched leviathans breechand...
The Lover
I have cringed at your deformed nose,And flinched from your bulging eyes,I did wince from your disfigured smile,And quivered from your eerie voice.Yet I...
I Have
Have you ever ate a sundae in a blinding storm of snowOr looked down on a rainy day on Paris far below?Have you ever had an angry dad, an alcohol...
Before You Are Gone
Sirens sing in the background, but they feel as if they're next to meThe breeze is lovely, and the sunshine is crispThis new day has begun with a softness...
The Crowd
I own the grace of AttentionI speak and everyone listensThey absorb my speech as if I were the Pope, the Führer, the prophet of end of the times“Oh, Bravo!”...
The World of Incident
Wonder came backloaf of bread a covenantthe red ink dotstheir own understoodThe world of incidentintersectional bird wingthe backwardlandinghomemakers of the...
An American Christmas Story, 1991
I was twenty-one, at university for the first time, and had my first golden credit card: $500.00 limit.Winter was on its way in the Northeast and having just...
Once Upon a Time …
Once upon a time there was this little guyWho indeed didn’t believe in LoveWho indeed didn’t believe in HappinessYet he would still see, in his horizon, in...
Wien, the Imperial City of Music
In a very fine yearmy musical studiesrequired me a great city,opaque to our world,but vibrantly ornatelike the archetype of its land,the beautiful...
Of Hilltops and Valleys
I wish for a spring of cool mountain airTo lift my hair like a maenad’sTo make my fingertips cool and freshTo drizzle my face with mistI wish for the breeze...
Echoed Church Bells
Echoed church bell chimesUrban violence stirs dustBang bang bullets hitBang bang bullets warnWomp womp whirly birds circleWhen you know the wholeJustice will...
Morals About Marilyn
It wasn’t the unwitting look I tookof Marilyn Monroe’s decapitated cadaverHer fur coat draped over the welcome matin one conclusive squirrel caperthat kept...
Three Star Poems
I.Something sideways draws over,Insomniacal, fontanelic brushFrom top of head to balls of feet.The stars are playing on me,Dragging awake this trundle of...
Godless Anger
Godless angerShapeless shapeI’ve got these explosionsGoing on in my headWhat are you buildingWith your spiritual tendenciesWord thief mysticUniversal...