2019, my Dad and coming back
2019 was a year that was filled with loss for me and my family – a dear aunt, my step …
Category Archives: My family
My father finds comfort in crows
Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …
Waiting for the doctor
hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …
In the sea
Sometimes, my wife thinks she is still a saber tooth. I call to her to come back and we rock …
Lantern on path
Lantern swinging down path — I wonder if it is really there, if that is you, or just some accident …
The Red Trail
you would think as you walk along the forest ridge this time of year there could be nothing more wondrous …
Childcraft, 1964 ed.
loud, no books but encyclopedia, hiding behind end-table, drapes fidgeting, national geographics layered open alien religions, bangles elongating necks, circular …
To my Aunt Cathy
It was as we played king of the raft — bobbing the way it did, always half-swamped with the translucent …
Top of the White Trail
The first sense you have is of the isolation
and how disorienting it feels
to not see anyone, even a stranger.
Haunted
I had thought it was God who
visited me that night, or the devil,
but perhaps it was just you,
Poems from in between 