Category Archives: Poems

I fill feeders with sunflower seed. I stuff suite into its holders. I wait. Surreptitiously, cardinals, chick-a-dees, woodpeckers and wrens and then squirrels searching for droppings, sneak out to feed. Nibble a seed here… Peck at suite there… Suddenly, they … Continue reading →

To predict a moments implications, to guess how far out in time its ripples will go, the power its waves will generate when they crash on some distant shore… that’s a tricky, iffy enterprise, but worth the effort -if you … Continue reading →

(when this poem is read to groups, I will sing the old gospel song, ONLY A BOY NAMED DAVID for the back story.) I know a guy, Bill, who believes in whatever requires no faith to believe. If there’s a … Continue reading →

The view from my pillow of her, occupies my eyes as she sleeps, nude, beside me. Her cleavage lingers – just there, draped in blue silk sheets, inviting me to lose my way in her deep and comforting valley. I … Continue reading →

He sees himself but doesn’t know himself but he knows what he sees and doesn’t like it. He sees himself, rust-breast-feathers-fluffed, blue-angry-wings-flapping… and what he sees is frightening. To defend himself against himself he attacks that self he sees mirrored … Continue reading →

I placed an old folding chair between the tree line in my back yard and the bird feeders. I sit there, waiting. The birds panicked off when I arrived, but, now, they steal their way back, a few feather flutters … Continue reading →

There is such a little space, the distance created by a thumb-tap-or-two on the space-bar——– of my key-board, between now here and no where, between knowing exactly where I am, -here- when I am where I am- -now- , and … Continue reading →

No! Not that Woodstock… and, No, not that Woodstock either…. I wasn’t at Woodstock in ’69. I was in Northern Chile, contracting amebeotic dysentery. And that other Woodstock is the cute-little-yellow-bird-friend-of-Snoopy from the imagination of Charles Schultz. My Woodstock comes … Continue reading →

God, in Heaven and on earth, all the Names You have chosen to be called are Holy. Your Kingdom is coming and is here in us, already. Your Divine-Benevolent-Will is being carried out on earth, and in our lives just … Continue reading →

At 7 this morning as she slapped at her clock, there came a delicious idea to her head: a delightful delay to the start of their day, instead of their usual crawl from their bed! Her agreeable lover -rose- to … Continue reading →