Letter to my Brother - Feb. 8, 2023when was the last time you penned one? sat down to a blank page pen pinched between fingers and stared out the window to search inside...
Sugar in Iced Tea - Feb. 7, 2023sitting in Elmer’s stirring through welcomes and quick catching up with friends I peruse the menu and take a sip crystals lay on the...
To a Reader new to Poetry - Feb. 6, 2023I apologize if you’re looking for campfire stories and not this twisted art of over-the-top descriptions and mirroring metaphors every...
Our Poor Flag - Feb. 5, 2023guess I need to buy a flag that can only be raised half-mast one that comes doubled-knotted mid rope or maybe a half flag I can pull...
Tomato Plucked - Feb. 4, 2023I didn’t give my poetry teacher an apple so she can think of me in a better light I give her a homegrown tomato which by the way is...
This Morning, in this Very Quiet House - Feb. 3, 2023the eyes in my mind could see both ghosts floating in the past and an illusion of tomorrow drifting away in the future a reminder to...
Now a Chameleon - Feb. 2, 2023once like the plain gray lizard that used to sun herself on the front wall my mother is now a chameleon of emotions slipping in and...
My Old Pillow - Feb. 1, 2023its memory foam in late-stage Alzheimer’s doesn’t remember me or the shape of my head at first I thought it was that streak of laziness...