baby grand- daughters staring    at the sky    boughs so high above their round heads.   the first in Oz snug in Dad’s arms    her rapt stare    her newborn hair ruffling in the breeze.   the second in CORVID Gotham    a stolen hour    a leafy bower…

If I remember nothing else About childhood it’s what happens After my bedtime The idea that I missed out On some unknown world Frustrated me Now of course I count The restless hours I do sleep And laugh So long a child’s curiosity

Dear Grandma B, So glad you’re safely tucked in the ground And don’t have to struggle while we’re cleaning up this mess You lost your mind just in time while the world was sublime but what you’d do right I cannot guess but I bet…

There were rainbow fairies that lived in the woods. At night, they would pick a forest somewhere in the world and engrave hearts into trees. Gone before sunrise, they didn’t want to be seen. People in boats wish under the stars and can could be…

russet leaves piled high on the front lawn — the dog and I play

  I am determined not to cry but to listen. Even the forest floor has things to tell me. Debris can be read like tea leaves. Today the only message is the word “enough” and a sound like a heartbeat. I put the word and…

haibun in the time of plague ~   fall light fills the dinghy water burnished gold shimmers lightfall a road home   across the water, autumn sun lays a path I can follow somewhere else, somewhere outside this time of plague & hate & death…

If you wanna Stop mass shootings there is but one thing to do have those who do all the ruling have to have kids In public school too Get your killing out of our lives If you wanna Stop your kids from Bein shipped out…

As the journey concludes, I stand at the peak As I gaze o’er the valley below The sunbeams, a shadow of where I have been Their light, signs of where I’m to go For while here on top, where I can touch the sky I…

Some say that there are many worlds, not just our planet Earth.   God, I hope it’s true.   I hope that somewhere, humans or something like humans have done Life right,   because we certainly haven’t.   I hope somewhere there’s a world not…