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Miracles
I looked for you againin the garden, as I haveeach year when the light grows longupon the grass,remembering that momentwhen you lit upon my knuckle,your tatted wings the hue ofripened limes,and eyes like orchid beads,and wondered what you were,what passing phase—youth or age or in between—delivered you to me,and felt…
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Rowing Home
That sultry day,summer’s waning light,its grasp weary,anticipated death. I didn’t know it at the time,but watched you melting in its haze,thoughtful, with your oars,each fading cell a ghost on rolling glass,hushed waves. No sorrow in your silence,you seemed content to sway,and drift to shore,a thousand miles away. ©2025
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On the el’
He walked up to me,this man on the El’,a stranger,and said the Lord asked him to bless me. His suit was gray,and his tie was…I don’t recall. The essence of caramel tinged his skin,and his eyes,a feast of lime, maize, blueberry,intensified as he spoke—enticed by…what?A tired sigh,empty stare? I can’t…
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Motherhood
(for Vincent) Within each stroke,a shard of glass,each hue,a brittle stain. Nature, awed, cedes her brush,bows her head,and weeps. ©2025 All Rights Reserved
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Remember
Almost lost amidst dead leavesand severed limbs,a nest felled by the storm,barely more than twigs. On other walks, it would have beena mass to be avoided,side-stepped in the rain.But reason,shamed by distant fluttering,let sentiment compela search for lifewithin that sodden lump,so plainly delicate and still. How to quell despair,when prodding…
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Radiance
Summer—Cantaloupe and ice cream,Beer and hot dogs dribbling mustard, relish.Swings and sprinklers, kites in the park.Sweat-stained nights—Bare feet andTwilight obsessions,Heavy breaths and heatHe spies and plots his conquest—Supple flesh,Veiled temptress,Summer dreams. Day after day he has watched herthrough her window.And day after dayhe’s planned.… Barbecue,Softball,Watermelon,She hibernates without season,stroking the skin…
