My Father Happily Hums
My Father Happily Hums MY FATHER HAPPILY HUMS My Father happily hums as we reach the water I’m 6 standing on a dock he says I am ready to go fishing all I want to do is to please him A contorted...
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She strolls among the old and dusty, the fox-eared, the stained, her hand guiding long, blonde strands back while bending down, eyes squinting to inspect Lladro for fine cracks and chips. Irish linen...
View ArticleThe Clerk
The Clerk i drove to the gas station to fill-r-up took $20 & hoofed it inside where The monosyllabic Clerk looked down at the register calling everyone “hereyagoHun” after each transaction...
View Articledreaming of an avocado on friday night 8/30/14
i’d just hitched a ride onto the tail of a REM comet finding myself alone bent over a kids 1950’s trike one foot on the backboard between small worn tires the other foot pushed my adult weight along...
View ArticleAbbe Sleeps Through Kevin’s Advice
The last thing I remember was having a project brewing in my mind no, burning up my head I had bizarre bird photos that needed exhibiting inside bird houses how would I build and light them properly...
View ArticleWho Grieves For Dilawar
Who Grieves For Dilawar (written in 2008) “The President has the constitutional authority to temporarily suspend our treaty obligations to Afghanistan under the Geneva Convention…” “While...
View ArticlePeshawar: “If our children die as martyrs, your children will not escape”
Reuters The title above is a quote from Uman Mansoor, head of TTP, Tehreek Taliban Pakistan, the mind behind the Peshawar school killings. He is a father of two daughters and a son, the gatekeeper...
View ArticlePoetry Contest ending in two days at www.rattle.com — Toes Tagged and Ready
This photograph by photographer James Bernal spoke to me, I had to pen something. Not for contest but for my own silly brain - the contest for your poetry ends in 2 days, Jan. 1, 2015 – (where’d the...
View ArticleShadows and Art – the enslavement
I slip into 2 random shoes under my desk neither matches but still a right & left it’s 3:29am who needs haute couture Amtrak whistles at the full bodied moon I step outside- a cloudless night...
View ArticleGATOR
a few steps toward the pondI see a protusion – water breeched by an Oligocene visionwide eyed – face carved by rugged millenniumshis view locked & focused onto minethose pupils narrowed with...
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