Peaches & Poetry I’m trying to leave my phone in the drawer,to get enough sleep, and drink more water.All while the world tumbles towardsbecoming rubble—it...

Boativation (Kayak Poem #22) Broen and I catch Mother Weather napping,push off into her belly, glide on glassinto the York River. Glittering current requiresthe paddle...

Entranced by Fire I light the forest,see what burned looks like,more visceral than AIpictures. Flaking branches,like fish on a grill.Black smoke, crawlingalong acre after acre...

Resilience Even the “R” has curvesbends to the groundreboundsjoins the othersto lead the wayon its thin legs The Jade Belt I feel the scales form.First behind my...

When Horowitzfor my brother When Horowitz played Carnegie for war bondsyou were an ovumswimming through the ovary,a pearl among the roe.Scraps of cloudstruck sharps and...

don’t freak me out o pitiful soul trapped in darknessyou’ve been wandering around the drugstore stoned out of your mind for 45 minutes passing the...

hand holders you were eating strawberries and then all i could see was your mouth: to practice the killing of a friendship is to court...

tonight the sun sets in its usual fashion the spheres rotate inside themselves and then circumnavigate bodies in curved spacetime my children splash diamonds into the fire and acknowledge...

Consider The Frappuccino caffeine’s godly powers are only a few slurps away. banish ennui! conquest thought with energy! don’t taste, except what you remember you tasted of the first...

Sorting Through Mail at a Senior Home I make small piles on my desk To separate the residents  Who have passed and those still waiting For letters that...