offered generously by strangers who have no reason to save my life other than perhaps their life was once saved and they want to make an offering to the ones who kept them alive we should all be so fortunate to have a Rilke in…

Attack and on edge all night, panic and shaking, sweating and thinking how to get away. Rush of energy force adrenaline to move legs faster and faster as bewitching wind blew around such a precious fragile tumbling to the ground. No time to get back…

There’s a moment when, in the desert south of Vegas, I turn up the music and begin to sing. The broad, flat vowels lie heavy in my mouth like stones but these notes dance up into the open sky. She is handsome, she is pretty….

Earth under foot in time, to music played with a bow. Eyes that shyly meet Have a luminescent glow. The dance is a frenzied weave – Of twirling, spinning rows Leprechauns and their kin And others you may know Quicken the pace of the dance…

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The mon-keys are happy They have been like don-keys Only them got the keys You can scratch like those bees You won’t match in a freeze   You don’t know where they’ve been To be soooo after their keys They could run all galaxies To…

She stood by the window Confined to a cell she once chose Dusk turning to dawn she watched the frost fall off the daffodils Hope, new life She dropped her bottle in the sink as the whiskey drank the drain The screen door shuttered behind…

Remembering Grandma I was so young You so wise wish I could remember your eyes. Grandps died cancer came you suffered til it won the game (of life)

I thought I had a bunch of Irish in my veins I swore I did until the DNA test So now only a pipsqueak possibility way less than 1% But that doesn’t stop me from telling that I once saw a man smoking his pipe…

    How can a jig Encapsulate life? Two measures tear me up, Tighten my throat Capsize my heart so it floats upside down in my chest, Rudder aloft and sails under water. It starts with the swallowtails, of course, Dipping and diving for insects…