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Soul Speak

Soul Speak

Fragile with an innate illiteracy of thoughts and words,Even those directly communicatedThrough decorus pitchDiplomacy ever...

Poetry
19 Oct 2020 | 01:11
Heaven is a bowl of apple slices

Heaven is a bowl of apple slices

laced with spicescinnamon and nutmeg juices sinkingIt’s the cold and hot fatsthe baking boiling simmeringthickening richness...

Poetry
30 Sep 2020 | 12:13
Quarantined Midlife Crisis

Quarantined Midlife Crisis

COVID has killed and hurt so manyThe sad stories of health and wealth lost are aplentyI pray for those who lost more than...

Poetry
10 Jun 2020 | 11:31
Morning Sermon

Morning Sermon

I come to the table.Disciples blooming under God’s opulent eye:Begonias of pomegranatecoloredosageorange.Portulaca with lacy...

Poetry
12 May 2020 | 02:36
Earthshine

Earthshine

The man in your life should be the sort whogathers firewood on Sunday. Who wipes sweat off his brow and pulls splinters from...

Poetry
01 Jul 2019 | 03:57

Seed Catalogue to Farmstand

This one stores wellYou could be eating cucumbers on ChristmasGermination is slow and sparseThis tastes more like a cucumber...

Poetry
06 Mar 2019 | 12:58
Summer of ‘12

Summer of ‘12

Acres, twenty Six mouths to feed. I plow and harrow, seed interred The kids, too small to aid Wife weak, in flesh and will....

Poetry
03 Jan 2019 | 01:45
The rest

The rest

I don’t ever want to have a jobJust a paycheck, thanksI will never need youYour commute, attire, meetings, holiday...

Poetry
06 Nov 2018 | 03:49
fisherman seen from a worms view
fisherman seen from a worms view

Fishing

I don’t catch many fishI’m not a naturalThe arc of the weighted line and flyAs it sails through the air Is...

Poetry
02 Jul 2018 | 03:43
SPIT

SPIT

Spit:It’s what I wanted to beAble to doWell.Spit!Spit A giantShiningCrystal Bullet Of spit,Shoot it Out of my mouth...

Poetry
14 May 2018 | 03:02
Pile of chopped wood ready for the fireplace with snow
Pile of chopped wood ready for the fireplace with snow

The Cost of Warmth

Poetry
23 Apr 2018 | 12:21
Spring snowdrop flowers with snow in the forest
Spring snowdrop flowers with snow in the forest

Around this snowy bend

I hear the song of summerAround this snowy bend,Where the cold wind will stop blowingAnd the sunshine will not end.A rainbow...

Poetry
23 Apr 2018 | 12:02
Smoke spreads over the scorched earth from natural summer fires caused by heat
Smoke spreads over the scorched earth from natural summer fires caused by heat

I Shot a Tree

I shot a tree to death on my way to Viet Nam. My first war crime. I knew I was going to die and didn’t want to die...

Poetry
26 Oct 2017 | 11:44

Skies With / Without Clouds

Every sky is blue, When the clouds have been skimmedfrom its top. Every garden is lovely, when new flowers are sitting in...

Poetry
27 Jun 2017 | 03:14
Rotten fallen tree detail in wild forest
Rotten fallen tree detail in wild forest

Rotting Log

I saw the futureIn a rotted logThe withered, ashen-laced edges of dried barnaclesOn upward curling slabs of stiff, dried...

Poetry
08 May 2017 | 04:32
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