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Fear And Love
I wish I could make the argument that a river / and a sunset plus a calm disregard of the ego / are enough.
June 2019Kiss
When Lynne saw the lizard floating / in her mother-in-law’s swimming pool, / she jumped in.
June 2019Our Dad Got Old
Our dad got old. He moved in with his brother. We had all left home because we were supposed to figure out what we were good at and do it. He’d taught us that.
June 2019Sightings
Shortly after her death, Mother Teresa appeared / in a cinnamon bun in Nashville, Tennessee. / She looked serious, perturbed even, as though / this epiphany were an inconvenience.
May 2019Also Known As
If you are more close to the dying / than you would like to be, then it is time for the sky / to grow larger than the earth, than the sea even.
May 2019Out Of Our Reach
I’m a new face in the therapy group. / My wife’s ultimatum drove us here tonight. / And when my turn in the circle comes / to say what I’m feeling right now, / my tears surprise even me.
May 2019For My Friend Who Told Me Don’t Celebrate The Dead
how can I tell him that every day I see her / smiling in her coral blouse, her matching lipstick, and her sunglasses, / sitting alfresco at our favorite Milwaukee cafe
May 2019Accent
Fifty years ago my older brother brought home / the first tape recorder I’d ever seen, a little box / that pulled my voice out of the air and spun it back / transformed, whiny, stuffed-nose, singsong.
April 2019Walking At Night
Sometimes the horses grazing / in the nearby pastures come to the fence / and we talk. Or I do, and they seem to listen.
February 2019Nature Is Strong
Put a bald truck tire in the top of a cypress tree in Florida / and soon an osprey will arrive to build its roost / of sharp dry twigs and torn-up winter grass.
February 2019
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