Wake early, body ready like a colt brain fogged like an old horse drink fresh water Shower, skin cool, basic stretches, look out for knees, coffee, painkillers, boiled egg, blueberries. Lace up the lilac trainers with tangerine soles, Attach barcode at wrist. Car keys or…

Slowly but surely gradually but impactfully making popcorn and making progress as hour 19 kicks off. And there’s something so beautiful in the fact that we are still here despite everything that has been thrown our way – lack of sleep, lack of veggies, lack…

A Self Portrait After Adam Zagajewski – The frame I used is from his poem, and I have put them in italics. Between my cell phone, the kitchen, and my love seat half my day passes. It is well past half a century. I live…

The earth is like a blue bottle jelly fish a creature of many creatures floating in an ocean of cosmic gas. We hurtle through space at an incredible speed pushed by waves from an unknown source. And we each are part of the other. Singular,…

From across the globe they gathered defying timezones and technology bringing their poems haikus, sonnets, rhymes, limericks, elegies, odes, and so much more Some wrote through the night some wrote though to dawn hour by hour word by word so passionate so strong Learning, teaching,…

A curtain of deadly tentacles Roams the Indian Ocean.   Working together Each holding on to their one job.   The greater good succeeds The great individual.   As it grows and feeds down below, We break apart on land.   We fragment. We don’t…

Hollow phrases from empty faces Robotic repetitions rendered meaningless Some used to be polite, but now they are just trite Why is “Welcome home” usually followed by a complaint or fight? Or is it just something that happened to be on a cute doormat? Are…

I’d like to begin with a confession: I am not an expert in love.* In fact I am not an expert on many things. I can’t sing. I can’t dance. I struggle with rhyming. But I am willing to try. To try my best. To…

Shakespeare wrote sonnets High School English teachers assign sonnets College kids may memorize devotional sonnets Grad students pontificate upon sonnets Poets ponder publishing pleasing books with sonnets I do not write sonnets I do not need 14 lines of rhythm and rhyme imposing structure and…