“Family Values” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999.

My husband ran away
with the baby-sitter
and they both left
their dirty dishes in the sink.

The baby-sitter’s pregnant
her father disowned her
and my husband
ran away with the maid. Read more

Summer

As the world burns, Read more

I walk in a poem

late at night that sings no sober song,

no lyrics for the living,

toss in a few lines for the dead.

It fetters my anger

with hostility and sticky jam between

my toes and worn out shoes. Read more

Prying?  Who is crying

    Up the coathanger tree

              There.  A frightened pussy

Lick a daisy!  Hung up to dry.

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US equUS caballUS

Obamaverick broncobuster bucking uneven odds

Stacked against long shot steed

Dark horse of different color Read more

Papa Ironside ventilates his pipe-clay,

Swabs

Progressing unctuous gunk. Read more

“Rosebud” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999. The soundtrack is from the CD “Living It!.

Like a tight wrapped rosebud

shy to Jack’s frosty fingers

beneath each layer of petals

falling away,

I am oblivious to all the signs

along the fast lane

as if I know secretly

some other route.

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We want to achieve the unbelievable

and we make huge the simple,

unable to stand

neither the big we made leveled,

nor the small we did not value.

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Away from the lab-bench’s proving ground

The naked eye’s lame.

The moon’s heart

In an impulse swirls.

Triple-check – it’s far off, Read more

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Current safe boundaries were once

     Uncharted frontiers intrepid fearless voyager

          Exploring remote vistas unknown spectrums

               Daredevil venturing alone without maps Read more

a fern that flowers

is not a fern Read more

A way with words.

They changed meaning, slipped

Through his fingers, formed haut relief,

Liquid lips, ripple to ripple. Read more

Peake-Pease-Peck-Peter

       Who changes name with the weathercock

                       Stutters a fit, a pine

     Of a pant, Read more

a non-peppery pepper
that’s not really a pepper
a misleading misnomer
of columbus courting the queen’s Read more

illustration by Saknarin Chinayote

            TENSION à ATTENTION

Pure consciousness freedom from thought

Divine inspiration curious awesome wonder

Intuitive awareness overwhelming perceptual senses

The is nothing to understand Read more

Cabbage and Cauliflower

Stringbeans and Squash

Pop Corn and Corn Meal Read more

Without letup I’m petulant

At not for the life of me cremating my parents.
A warming lie-in-wait with tongs,
Would have saved me.
No ticklish squeeze Read more

Scientists say

was a time

when continents still clung

together;

before dinosaurs Read more

            UNI-T42

Barack to the Future imperfect

     Tense burrowing through loose earthworm

          Infested soil dirt thrown up

               Mined molehills aerating fresh breath

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