old-growth cathedral branches, absorbing each others’ silence like moss absorbs rain.then suddenly the forest trembles with the weight... Poetry 03 Apr 2023 | 10:49
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 .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 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 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 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...? 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
