Bridge Of Dreams

Bridge Of Dreams

How peaceful dreams can also be agitating.

Drunk

Drunk

Drunk is a poem that implores the idea of heartbreaks and how some deep bonds when broken can make us feel so drunk and delusional.

Crypt in the Sky

Crypt in the Sky

please don’t bury me beneath
this ground, don’t let me decay

Almost End of a Line

Almost End of a Line

This poem reflects my love of mythology, teaching and learning, and above all of the ways in which words collide.

Love Thy Neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor

A poem about the war in the Ukraine.

The Cycle

The Cycle

Dedicated to all women who have suffered abuse at the hands of the man who was supposed to love them.

A Garden Grows

A Garden Grows

Christ wears a gas mask,
shudders as Putin’s machine

A Split Second in Time

A Split Second in Time

An eclectic interpretation of mood and a mix of form.

Hunting Season

Hunting Season

This comes from my earlier work at a rural Appalachian Ohio convenience store that also doubled as the area’s location for deer tagging.

This is the Year

This is the Year

Exploring an obsession with the ill-treatment of women, and the antagonisms of love and aging.

Melting into the Universal Dissolve

Melting into the Universal Dissolve

A snapshot in time describing the paradoxical nature of life and consciousness.

hot iron

hot iron

A caution against procrastination.

Superlatives

Superlatives

Centered on the often chaotic and ridiculous nature of existence.

A Flirtation Gone Awry

A Flirtation Gone Awry

A young man meets his match when he attempts to pick up a savvy young woman.

Inside Blues

Inside Blues

Mad rain beat down
all day in his room

From here on in:soaring

From here on in:soaring

In memory of Gordon Lightfoot passing.