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Cemetery Wall

Cemetery Wall

The freestanding wall borders the path,separating one family’s gravesites from another.

Nature puts it to its own uses.Openings...

Poetry
09 Jan 2023 | 03:29
Dadirri

Dadirri

.I.raking summer’s tears,I brush away woodland warmth.maple leaves burn crisp.

.II.chunky cable knits.slouchy smiles all wear...

Poetry
30 Jun 2022 | 11:32
9 June 1944

9 June 1944

At one o’clockShe heard itSo faint and softAnd slowThe song was everOn his lipssweet Mary from DungloeShe blessed herself,and...

Poetry
30 Mar 2022 | 12:34
How Long

How Long

The long year in pause in desperation, turned life sideways.

All that we know has been turned askew. All that we believed...

Poetry
24 Feb 2022 | 12:16
Jockey’s Ridge

Jockey’s Ridge

A huge light beige sand dunerising between the ocean and the baythat has been there for centuries,yet is constantly changed...

Poetry
09 Feb 2022 | 01:26
The Kids Are All-Right...?

The Kids Are All-Right...?

They say,“You are what you eat”as they feed us processed treatsand they tell us that they love to see us smile.

Then our teeth...

Poetry
03 Aug 2021 | 02:40
Geese – A Day’s Theme

Geese – A Day’s Theme

The sky is too quiet for May.They are gassing the geesein one of our great eastern states.The objection to their existence:they...

Poetry
09 Apr 2021 | 01:12
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
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