and we circle back, a routine, suffering in a broken hymnal. a serpent ate your fruit, punished you in your desolate lands, stuck you out in the garden against the burning sun, to think you had all the bones and all the gold between your…

Can you hear that?? The mailbox was talking, What is going on? The gas in my car Got mad and started walking. Knock! Knock! I heard at the door, What a sight before fuchsia eyes! I can’t take this anymore. A big black tree smiled…

As I sit down to write this poem for you It is filled with mostly lies along with half truths It just wouldn’t be exciting if on my life I was writing Because in my life the truth is I seldom do So I write of…

Rolling green hills Spotted with bales of hay As we drive by

Traveling down this road No preconceived destination in mind Just the wind to guide my soul From the highest mountains to the lowest depths From bustling cities so polluted it’s a wonder anyone survives To laid back, off the beaten road towns where everyone knows…

Through deserts and forest and grassy savannah a landscape that transcends them all. Glowing alight at night with neon orbs that call forth all the the bats and the moths and birds of night until a carnival of wonder circles overhead Above the teeming lights…

Lucky thirteen and nowhere near midnight Nowhere still closer to daylight It’s the time of night where one party ends And another begins Every song sounds better And the pool is wetter Some folks can hang and some folks can’t Some keep drinking when they…

A concrete windowsill on a house a place where the caterpillar chose to create its cocoon on this day, breaks open birthing a butterfly which dries its wings, shaded, by the brick house Twilight enters the city on the south side of St. Louis, a…

Bloodletting I ladle the somber eyes of saskatoons, the pucker of summer raspberry in the blistered lattice of my palms. Rotten teeth of sunrise swallowing poplars like dancing cotton candy. Pommels of dark trunks growl under their breath along the cherry hallways, splashing leaves in…

While driving down the highway Seeing a tree that is growing Out of a rock bluff No dirt to be seen   A person with disabilities Who is making a difference Motivates me to try harder I am without their limitations   The words of…