Misandroid’s Missteps

Misandroid’s Missteps

Words drop, disconnect and die.
Yet the babbling blather continues.

making it palatable

making it palatable

Coffee as a metaphor for life.

I Never Knew Her

I Never Knew Her

For Anne Sexton.

What things was all important

What things was all important

A poem about extinction.

Hands in the River

Hands in the River

A poem about blood and darkness.

What I call poetry

What I call poetry

A poem about poetry

Abscission In Winter

Abscission In Winter

The form of an act of nature, describes how we fade away from each other.

Carousel

Carousel

Wow. One drink and suddenly
the weight is off you.

Chants, Prayers, Foster

Chants, Prayers, Foster

The work is inexplicable.

Taking the Long Way Home

Taking the Long Way Home

Taking the Long Way Home chronicles her mother’s life and long fall into dementia.

Apple of My Eye

Apple of My Eye

A narrative persona poem of young love and human callousness.

The Cleaning Lady

The Cleaning Lady

A poem about life on hands and knees

Impressions of Her Landscape Through an Urban Graveyard

Impressions of Her Landscape Through an Urban Graveyard

To a vilified outcast who ricocheted into self-destruction.

The Ordinary Second

The Ordinary Second

Happens when you least expect it.
The distracted driver blabbing on his phone

cheap vacation

cheap vacation

A poem about a cheap vacation.

Woman in Phone Booth

Woman in Phone Booth

Woman in Phone Booth riffs, like an extended sonnet, on an imagined photograph.