Dalton’s Law
In diving Thumbs-up does not mean okay. Surface, it signals. Abort. Get me out. Here Shore lies 40 miles to […]
Poems
Poems
Awards, Poems, Poetry Prize
Dear Internal Revenue Service
Thank you for your letter informing me of the errors in my 2005 filing. I’m enclosing a check for $5,657.00
On the Poverty of My Imagination
There’s that famous statement: ‘poetry doesn’t do anything.’ Or something like that (‘poetry makes nothing happen’—Auden). Well, there was a stage in my life where nothing seemed to do anything. Which made everything poetry. Which made poetry everything.
Awards, Poems, Poetry Prize
After Six
Cheek pressed against the cordless phone, I picture my mother in her Savannah kitchen, leaning both elbows on the glass
Awards, Poems, Poetry Prize
The Neighbor’s Tale
We live in the same building, A six-story apartment house in Queens. She’s just three doors down, has been there
Cowboy Poetry, Poems, Tributes
Rider
Son of the rodeo circuit, He clung from kick to kick Till demon Coors reduced him From trick rider to