Poems

Apr 5, 20231 min

They Want You Tired

They sold our gilded cage out from underneath us And who can blame them? Why even bother with the pretense whe - BUFFERING - rks just as...

Mar 15, 20231 min

Poems

Tal Xel’atoth

Deep within that wretched, rapturous, metastatic Uber-city of sprawling slums teeming with bitter ghosts Where the grief peddlers,...

Mar 8, 20231 min

Poems

After Hours

It's after hours now and it's just me, the cat, and the day's ghosts they watch through my eyes, waiting and whispering from shadow-lit...

Mar 1, 20231 min

Poems

Scamper

When the cat suddenly scampers, her claws clicking on the hardwood, I always wonder what or who she sees that I can't

Feb 22, 20231 min

Poems

Parenthood

is knowing you would give every atom of your being for just one more storytime together in the rocking chair

Feb 15, 20231 min

Poems

Bottles

Father always told me never to let a night terror go to waste So now I stash them away in swing-top glass bottles Each an endless...

Feb 8, 20231 min

Poems

Youth

Oh, that I could move with the urgency speak with the frankness of my toddler who does not suffer the creeping naïveté of sluggish,...

Jan 25, 20231 min

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Prowler

As I lay in bed reading with wifey dreaming next to me I notice out the corner of my eye our bedroom door swing open seemingly on its own...

Jan 18, 20231 min

Poems

Wonder

Sometimes I wonder As I wander our house On dark and moonless nights Whether the last thing I’ll see Upon opening some door Will be a...

Jan 11, 20231 min

Poems

The Creek

Life is a gloomy rift glimpsed in a snow-topped creek; offering vague impressions of what came before, only hinting at the shape of what...

Jan 4, 20231 min

Poems

Foggy Morning

Misty vapors rise and dance over empty Winter fields lined by grotesque scraggle-trees with fickle fingers skyward turned gasping,...

Dec 7, 20221 min

Poems

Hengold

My neighbor Hengold used to plod out onto the frozen lake behind our neighborhood with a chair, a heater, and a little blue cooler He’d...

Nov 23, 20221 min

Poems

Consume

Log in to your opiate of choice for you are a business objective you are a key performance indicator Stuff your mind with noise, stuff...

Nov 9, 20221 min

Poems

No Man's Land

The Frenchman rises from his shell hole shambles forth with aimless grace I raise my rifle ka-chuk POW He twists but does not stop...

Oct 26, 20221 min

Poems

Safety

I comfort my shivering daughter in those wee morning hours just another dream it can’t hurt you and, wordlessly, for her fingers are in...

Oct 12, 20221 min

Poems

Admirer

It gawks each time I cross the quad, doing who knows what with the stubby, pitted, groping fingers carved between its weathered knees. It...

Sep 28, 20221 min

Poems

Vanya

Our new neighbors are just fine, I guess, they seem nice enough but they’re the kinda folks that leave the porch lights on all day Not...

Sep 14, 20221 min

Poems

News

Your terror starts promptly at 10 p.m. with the blaring theme of the local news The room is dark, you’ve read your books and yet there is...

Aug 31, 20221 min

Poems

Skipping Stone

Your mind is a smooth, flat pebble crashing across an endless lake Each new hop on that placid, azure surface a little lower than the...

Aug 17, 20221 min

Poems

Behold!

What was old is new again as you open the door to McCabe’s Tavern in the village that time forgot and wander up to the bar, making eye...