Jun 12, 2014

WHEN IT HIT When it hit the gas rushed, crazed & slip-shouldered up the pipe & out of the drill-pierced ground. It exploded in a fit of graceful ecstasy, shook off its excesses & in a quick, fierce shiver focused & held, curling its drawn-fingered...

Jun 9, 2014

MY LIFE Now Here This moment Is what my life, That unbidden miracle, Is, Standing On the deck, Leaning Against the 4×4 Where we hung the feeder Outside the kitchen window As the chickens and turkeys Rustle through leaves Under the maple tree Picking up bugs And...

Jun 8, 2014

THE LAST OFFERING You recall a night meadow, mist urged white by a pale moon, crickets & peepers random as memories in their edgy clicks & buzzes. Fireflies come & go, blinking like bubbles. You don’t recognize the parasite at first. It makes no...

Jun 6, 2014

HAIKU after the rainthe moonhanging out to dry• • • • • •All Hallows’ Eve…trash thudsin the funeral home dumpster• • • • • •All Souls’ Day…a shattered pumpkingrins• • • • • • an instant of sun on her face at the stoplight… her black eye •...