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Don’t Be My Valentine Poem

The Story You Tell Which Sticks

Kindred Spirits

“Anchoring,” going to a secondhand store, watching the boys play pool

The Confession Of Jezrine Beauvais

Yeah, someting unusual hoppened. I had a baby. My first born. An’ I killed it. Now you say you gonna charge me wid a crime. But you see, that baby wasna good ting. It was evil. So you see, I had no choice. It was just the next ting tu do.

Blind As A Fish

Time passes and you learn that you overlooked a fairly simple and important ingredient. Yeast is necessary. The only time you’re definitely right is when it doesn’t matter. Failure and pain, twin stepping stones to knowledge.

Peak Experiences

Two blue herons, a red tail-feather, wild blueberries

Rocks Along This River

There are certain safe points — rocks along this river, natural bridges. Once in a while, Papa and I feel the same thing the same way. Each of us knows, when it happens.

Selected Poems

Gypsies

Earnest says he is going out for a drink. Becky knows that he knows she knows.

Fathers

A green swing set, Mother’s Day cards, an afternoon of “Tosca”