So Close To Despair, I …

There are times I am so lonely I can taste it, hear it, smell it. I see it in my … More

NOR MINE TO SLEEP

Once upon a time, I read that insomniacs keep the sleeping world from disincorporating (tho the description was surely more … More

Dear World, At first I thought these were separate poems…but as I reread them before this posting, I realize they … More

LAST CHANCES ARE SELDOM THAT Betimes, I weary of this life, even my own name. Far horizons sing more clearly … More

Gently, so gently do I touch love The petal of a flower With a tendency to curl into protection Most … More

THE COLLECTIVE OF STILLNESS There’s not far to go before the land starts insisting I am alive in every place … More

Mortality / Schmortality Third person me She walks with the confidence Of a big-breasted woman 35 a dim echo as … More

SET MY HOOKS ON HEAVEN’S RIM Prayer over prayer, I climb Searching in wonder for whomever therein dwells Lords & … More

Dancing with my shadow Down the middle of the street With my headphones as antennae And that Pentatonix beat Tagged … More

Disparate Heart Made of thorns & parry I thought you better than this Moved to pity & then Toledo steel … More