Propped up against the headboard She calmly smoothes the cotton sheet With knarled arthritic fingers, Examining the faded flower pattern. In lucid moments she tells me that I look so…

Mom kept many gallons of water under the staircase. I watched her eyedropper eight careful drops of bleach into each bottle, wondering how the water would taste. She said if…

Creating light, love’s knowing fashion makes Some man, some woman reach in time in place To touch, their wordless press to hold each one. To find in other’s capture, purify,…

I turned down College Walk. The air sat thick, gooey. Termites swarmed the streetlights. The canal smelled like dead fish, was lined with plastic bottles. Stopping, I leaned over the…

My father, proudest in his life for serving his country in World War Two, lived his last three years in a nursing home, confined to bed, urinating and having bowel…

Most don’t want to hear Not at all Some kind of religious music Playing everyday She’s slouched there Her old cassette Smoking cigarettes Taking their donations Nicotine stained fingers Sagged…

I did not want to fall in love with you At most pursued a quick short-lived affair Wronged have I been before and sure anew I’d rather sidestep agonizing care…

Disdainful looks from you are welcome guests Like sunshined rays once storminess has passed So it were criminal to praise you less In deigning upon me your glares to cast…

I wonder often why Shakespeare did write Those hundred fifty-four love sonnets dear For whom he meant each one inspired delight For whom each one was meant remains unclear Enamoring…

Along some way I’ll find someone, my Love Together may we by our fates attach Together may we both forever prove We’ll last through time this time a timeless match…