gaze at every single face you see you’ve probably heard that God masquerades as all these characters waitress bank teller homeless...

the ones I seek for welcome shadows open their doors arms folded no greeting life can be cruel the train or subway squealing to a stop...

keys? - check wallet? – check cellphone? check doors and windows locked? check lights on for the dogs? check love? love??? now where...

These cobbled stones once rough and gray lie obsidian smooth and silent as I stride uphill in dim doorways tips of cigarettes dot the...

bananas don’t lie color confesses their taste this peach? no scruples

the mockingbird’s street the honeybee’s bush the lizard’s wall your wooden gate the house’s door that pair of eyes checkpoints I hit on...

damn hitchhiking gnats grab empty seats in my ears Let’s go see Grandma!

merely keep the darkness at bay where moonlight brings strangers together and firelight close ones even closer the candle assumes a...

everyone lives inside the world-covered window of a heart but doesn’t love need fresh air a chance to run sniff and hunt? like the cat...

rowdy clouds gather it’s a biker convention at a sleazy bar one of them guns an engine headlights shatter the night sky* *tanka –...

doors close rivers turn people walk out of sight a gardenia’s scent fades after ten steps a cackle of crows becomes a bluebird solo...

in love with a dream but those affairs with nightmares my secret children

I don’t have an obsession with death or dying just the poetry of those moments when breath stirs the seconds and spirit limbers for the...

I want a marriage like pepperoni has with pizza hot hands-on-everything compatibility kissing and slipping with passion on a cheesy...

I LOVE You to a nice neighbor our mail carrier or even that friendly checkout person but it’s there peering around the Hi jumping up and...

after you die you’ll be reborn in the spotlight of memory and a chiseler will double check his sketch before grinding out your letters...

he told me we don’t touch enough which made me think does love get arthritis with age and apathy? do fingers hands and elbows get...

I see the dung beetle has been busy rolled his junk pile somewhere else old crap new location I can see it now the Notice to Comply...

suitcases of a life heavy in his hands shoes split and heal-worn a nervous man rides the afternoon rails overcoat collared...

a couple yawns at dawn bed-making with curses shorts t-shirt sandals hat for pillow hair both dogs walk at the speed of sniffing snails...