Poem 13 Reverse logic   Time rolls backwards We start life from the point at which we would have had our last breath With a wealth of knowledge as if having lived before And gradually we become younger versions of ourselves Until we escape Until…

To most folks, I’m quite some combination; Mallory or Marlowe – take your pick. I worked for the DA once but then he chose to let me go. Now I’m a full-time private dick. Men have a tendency to look at me up and down…

Peckinpah hummed to something on the radio – “Name me somebody who’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him.” Realizing his guest might not be a Dylan fan, Sam turned the radio off, and looked for his tea cozy….

Away from the crowd Where it’s quiet, my love Let’s share this moment In candlelight, my love Just me and you at this table for two Shut out the world’s sights and sound Let’s enjoy our love jj2017

At a table for two At the far end of the bar I sit alone, Thinking of you. At a table for two I drink my scotch neat And think Of what I would say. At a table for two It doesn’t seem fair To…

before he took the cup filled with wine he took the bread he blessed bread he broke bread and he shared bread saying “take and eat” and “remember”; both loaves, at this table for two one table, two loaves of bread

Write a poem to go with one of the following five titles: At the Circus Table for Two Cloud Mountain Evening Fog Tea

The first boyfriend I lived with had a CD single of “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again.” For two years, he and I had a pattern. He wrote at his computer, a bag of grapes nearby. I came home and made our dinner salads, and,…

Aodh, Fionnuala, Fiachra and Conn, the children of the king, are turned into swans by their evil stepmother Aoife and are doomed to live as such for 900 years. They have not lost their children’s voices, however, and are able to sing beautiful songs. They…

Lose the goddamn need to tattoo Your life on your ass And then bitch Because people are all up in your business Lose the goddamn need to defend The political machine When he’s an ass On the world’s stage Lose the goddamn need to create…