A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.
The Bel Air inside the Bog
Tag: death
The Cows and the Mud
Heavy rain overnight
but the mud doesn’t bother the cows.
The Marionettist
When playing with dolls gets serious.
Bootsy
Bootsy is about a whimsical cat who can predict the future, often with disturbing conclusions. Based on true events.
What Is Life?
I exist on earth after my birth, and I am constantly doing something to keep my life going; if I don’t, then it is no longer worth existing.
Buried Prehistory
I found a dinosaur buried under a boulder in the hills near the Ohio River. I wondered what he saw from his trapped perch.
Fortuna on Holiday
Lana fears the odds are against pulling off one more criminal caper. The brash Tito seductively convinces her that she’s being superstitious.
Just Another Poet
Just another poet. There will always be another poet to take my place.
Happy Birthday Dad
Written on my father’s 100th birthday. Even though he left this world many years ago, he will never be forgotten by me.
Too Soon
A young woman in a small town, has experienced the loss of her boyfriend and is uncertain as to what she has left to live for.
Sylvia’s Eulogy
The coldness of the premature loss of a beloved.
Chrysanthemum
Inspired from the verse “Requiescat” written by an Anglo-Irish poet. Chrysanthemum, however, is dedicated to my late grandmother.
In My Will
In my will, there will be a pinball machine. A renovated jukebox from American Pickers, a cable TV show. For the taverns, bars…
Bend and Break
Love leaving one broken, like letting a partner hold your self worth, which so easily can be given away but is nearly impossible to get back.
Children Play Among Ruins of War
Describes how children play even in the horrific circumstances of war alongside the scars and fears that haunt them.
Still Among The Dead
This poem came in a fever dream and has haunted me ever since.
On Her Last Night
A deathbed elegy.