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...

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...

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...

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 •...