Isn’t that Ray-Ray down there? Such a handsome one. I mean those tail feathers – soooo sleek, the way they glint in the sun. Mmmm mmmm...

Your neighbors are trail mix you have your favorites the sweet and the salty or maybe it’s the nuts or that occasional sour thing which...

sometimes I’ll jot a lyric and let the steering wheel slip stop too far away from a red light to capture another one or slow the car in a...

I tape up the box, 35 mangoes stacked in a crisscross pattern, and head to the local police station. I fumble with the weight as I...

I slip into my favorite shorts kick off my shoes grab the cold drink jiggling with ice flop onto the sofa pick up the notebook and...

Oh poetry gods I’ve prayed to you way too much if prayer is begging

outside on my back I stretch under the morning sky and look up I appear to hang with palm trees like head lettuce on sticks far above a...

You play pickleball 3 times per week, just got a promotion and raise for a job you love, your son is graduating high school, your...

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it’s on a staged shelf in our living room appropriately old looking and dust- covered with a faded gray cover I assume it contains...

there’s a branch that needs to be cut bending d o w n blocking our walkway heavy with leaf and life it hangs with the weight of success...

here a gorgeous summer day is dark clouds spitting rain a splash of sun painting mountain rainbows and a breeze damp with exotic smells...

there’s a universe of them a dead-end place for the u the fateful location of a n ...

Does too much space between words make you uncomfortable? we do like to engage our monkey minds don’t we, with lyrics like trees close...

if it was just me in this house I’d ditch the pool and patios plant dozens of trees and add two benches – shaded and sunny near the...

as I age silence infests the hours shuts the mouth opens a quiet seeing on the world judgments seem to happen quickly while reflection...

mom leans over the electric grill dialed to 5 where eight sandwiches fit perfectly (just like the six of us at our Formica table) with...

if we’ve had other lifetimes some say each was earned karma-crafted the ugly and the lovely mine this time rather content with good...

how lucky you are not born a four-leaf clover hunted for a myth

that ramble on and overrun the line are signs of a dull contentment a condition of not wanting anything with all needs check-listed so...