POETRY

Far back when I was thirty-three
And certain I would be alone
I never thought I’d be in love,
I thought I’d live just like a stone.

But that was…

POETRY

Achilles comes alive in most of us —
We’d fight a river just to get our way
And arrogantly yell and scream and cuss
And threaten to tear down…

POEM

The river is a spirit, flowers grow
Along her banks and house their fairies in
The folds of leaves and petals — yet we know
These things are primitive supersition.

…

POEM

We had no bed to lie in, so we drove —
The night was downpour-dark, the back roads mud
Below a bed of gravel — tempted by
A drive…

POEM

It is the modern day, and so we met
Before we met — we each of us came in
The network, joined a common node, and set
A trap for…

POEM

Line breaks do not a poem make,
But line breaks there must be —
Three second lines make up their time,
And meaning makes each tree.

The pattern is the…