The Service
He’s been at it long enough to have become the service alone on a caged court standing a few steps outside one baseline next to a…
Finish Lines
Admittedly arbitrary, they show usif we’ve arrived or failed toagreed on by entering a race. Don’t recall signing up?With each breath we draw we re-uphearing it…
Allowances
Trees wear seasons as we doa row of maples along a fencewatching and learning what each season allowsgoing with it, spending or withdrawingas in these October…
Working the Edges
A chemistry set in a yellow wooden boxwith a book of experimentswaiting or seeming to waitin a basement room in a childhood hometo be explored waiting…
Evading Practice
Yeah, yeah, we know we must practicepatience, understanding, compassionor our lives will remain mostly suffering we’ve listened, partly heard the wisewho say so. We’ve even tried…
The Collected Works
Sitting on a log at the beachwaves coming at us their long armshands fingers indistinctsubtly shifting between literal and metaphoric wave-sound seabird-sound tracking each otherscrambled before…
A Mind Interval
(after William Bronk) Where dreams coalesce toward wakingbody parts or a disassembled mannikinlitter the floor mocking ussaying, we don’t need your witnessthe floor or its ground…
Illness, Wellness
sick for days with little sleep only its restless substitutewhat we don’t know but could have seems like magic an inhaled cluster of virus or some…
Pointers (after Marianne Moore)*
It has been said what’s best saidis left unsaid. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldierwe attend but don’t jabber on about itas with W’s famous…
Fortunate Absences
Certain absences welcome us backspaces in the attic now empty boxesthe garage resorted, cleared of former usessongs not heard for decades creeping backscraps of lyric and…
The Dog Star 