Poems

The caress of his soft bristles, scalloped for deep, pleasurable, cleaning, sonic waves pulsating, thirty-one…

May you wake with a sense of play, An exultation of the possible. May you…

These are dark times. Rumors of war rise like smoke in the east. Drought widens…

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently…

An ode to cheese

Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud Three things that I’m…

There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which…

Turn off the t.v. Sit with Anger…Fear…Grief…

There will always be voices that promise you greatness and glory: They call out from…

They wait patiently beside my bed Agreeable twin sentries, ready for duty. They know me…

Take the water, flowing up a tap from the earth – old aquifer, luscious remnant…

It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house…

I am tired of my dreams’ dark interiors and the family ghosts who inhabit them….

(May, 2014) Truly a “Wonder Rush,” this vivid recitation of Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “As…

In the dream the string had broken and I was trying to pick out its…

How lucky I was The cheap, unremarkable pension Its creaky bedsprings The untroubled sleep of…

One small gift from the universe an unintended consequence benefiting the giver, taker one momentary…

I lived on the shady side of the road and watched my neighbours’ gardens across…

The seasons revolve and the years change With no assistance or supervision. The moon, without…

I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy…