The Art of Letting Go
Poem The creature of my memory collage Came creeping out the subway yesterday It licked its fur as it was dirty And looked perplexed at all the people walking Keeping their distance It...
Tagged: memory
Smell Haunting
Poem I walked in And the smell Took me back Like a time-travel machine To a place Where I crept in fear From room to room Skulked in the smoke, And drank bitter...
Butterfly Words
Short Family Stories Gretchen’s eyebrows knitted together as she pushed against the wheels of her chair. Things that used to be easy weren’t so easy anymore. As she approached her dressing table a face...
On The Revisit
Spoken Word Hanging up the motive is harder Than breaking habits Braking at a stop sign From 50 to six miles At the drop of a dime Sets the teeth on edge Be...
Blossoming Terrors
Haibun The Japanese Maple grew in the center of 52 Holland’s front yard. Its long branches stretch to the sky like a petitioning priest. Its maroon foliage crowns the tree like a lion’s...
His Own Assembly
Haibun Poem Frankie squats on the living room hardwood floor. He grabs a blue, semicircular plastic connector. Then he stares at the directions, makes adjustments and adds a short yellow rod. The “Demon...
Personal Paschal Mystery
Haibun Poem You took your last breath. You, the Life, died. Where you could never be, you went. Death, through yours, becomes the door to life. My cousin, who could sit still no...
A Great Way to Displace Unwanted Matter
Poem about Memory Fume Fret Fumble over hands that fail to pay attention where needed Yesterday we all but shared Tonight stand alone is the order Fumble Easy words stick in the throat...
Portrait — Part II
It’s falling; a shrill of absence, a dreamy strangling, the days uniform and rationed, where jingles hold the spaces of love and immoderations, and zealotry redeems a country of her past. Gone. Gone, the...
Let It Lie
Anger Poems I killed a dream dead with my own two hands Wielding the knives of my sentences As you sat across, unsuspecting Letting me overpower you My emotional instability no match for...
