Take my hand, take my hand dance me ’round and turn me, cross the floor for ten turns more shiver me down and burn me.   Lead me up, lead me on throw me down and take me dance me hard in the primrose yard…

So tiny she breathed in her first breath, crying and squirming about, Days and months turned into years, they quickly came and went. First, puppy loves, Fairy tales, some came true How could she have known all her roads would lead to you? Then in…

Before darkness came, I thought I understood what the sun was saying. Up every shiny morning, not hearing what the moon whispered while it waited. Darkness has light that knows a different language that only your soul can hear.

I often get unexpected visitors in the clinic. Ozu bows and shows segments from Tokyo Story. Poets of various stripes read theirs poems as offerings of empathy. Writers will relate their novels to stories of migration.   I was doing a physical on a 13…

Maybe tomorrow birds will sing and flowers dance to the words of a god speaking light and truth, but today it’s dark –and raining.

In Which I Remove My Eyes From the Sky that Looks Like Boiled Water, Above Downtown Grand Rapids Last Year Before a Hardcore Punk Show in the Attic of a Church   A wanted poster is a blood flyer. There’s one tucked into every street….

RIP   they buried Frances in her purse brown leather with a strap there were some cracks as it was old though covered by the flap   Henry he’s been dead a year now in the tackle box cremated in his Sunday suit blue tie…

10am In a topsy turvy world Where every man is for himself At the expense of Becoming foe to friends Justified by the ends Of personal happiness – Each hand and head becomes a rung On the ladder to success Whatever that may be. In…

The girl she was a princess She was one of two Little miss danseuse And little miss goody two shoes One touched the sky One held the earth Together they made a rainbow Together they churned the rain When one flew the stars One gathers…

Inevitable Like the Montague’s and the Capulet’s A forbidden love is what has risen. Pointed fingers take turns At reciting the laws that were given. To sneak away for the night is a risk taken Our love could never be mistaken A battle between worlds…