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Mason City
You spoke to me across the table looking much too thin, which always wakes me up, you three years gone to the day and it’s a long way to go any road you take. It seemed as if the full tank would last...
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Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please.
Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. (Words from a story by the same name by Michael Kimmelman, NYT 31 October 2010) Gabrovo, Bulgaria. The sign leading into town reads, Welcome and good riddance....
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Occam’s Razor
Maybe the simplest explanation is that the boy fell from the sky. It’s hard not to think of Icarus. The boy went missing last month after he did yard work with his father and the family ate pizza. The...
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Period
When you died a part of me died too. The part that believed in second chances, that everything will be alright, that faults can be mended with duct tape, that holes can ever really be papered over and...
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Cranes
Already April and still I had not heard the cranes. Wendy said they were back, just not to our field. I wondered about them all night. What had happened to the breeding pair that comes to our field...
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Peppermint Tea
The day is yawning to an end with me on the couch writing this poem, listening to Greg Brown sing a song set in November ’63 on a cd called The Poet Game, and don’t you know I’ve written many a poem...
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2 A.M. Confidential
After midnight, maybe it’s the dark or the season, or the distance or just the nothing at stake anymore like when you’re already soaked through in a downpour, we can really talk about what was said and...
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Unrattled
Eight and a half years since we dumped your ashes beside a prickly pear cactus up the steep desert trail on the hill overlooking the house where you suffered so, rattlesnake country, where Wendy and I...
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