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I am not past my peak, though elderly, infirm, for I still can stretch my limbs and feel their power. I extend my long fingers to stroke shoulders strained by daily work, caressing those who need more care than me. Labeled an...

When stopped mid-step I notice a tick as it starts its climb a quiet walk, one leg the lead, a graceful beat, stretches out to gingerly place it, followed in turn by each foot. I think of a model, bedazzled in bling cello hums...

Ice hangs in a long saber from the back gutter a shaggy hardened tooth soon it will bar the window and this bedroom will imprison me with the lies that linger in the mind like an odorless gas. This is where the river divides and...

Under the leaden morning light through the blistered lens of ice, he went in February slipped carrying his bronze casket up the hill, six men dressed in black trekked like penguins through the worst whiteout Western, NY had seen...

It was yesterday      one last look           the rooms are bare                upstairs, downstairs                     empty I couldn’t remember      where things used to be           what we said in all the shouting          ...

Parched and roasted dunes July’s sting has passed ribbons of sand spun beach roads in these white-on-white days dragonflies whizzing through the backyard carried by a clear dry wind cool as a gin martini passing over the tongue....

Paint my fingernails with that twelve dollar CVS nail polish. Paint my world green like shimmering aspens, green leaching from my fingertips, green like the moss that grows on my childhood swingset. Paint my everything green,...

she holds herself very still wishing for a gold heart but alas confronted with a maid’s fortune wails echo like a slaughterhouse neither side relents how does ruin make a home? justice becomes lost in the...

at the edge through the hazy air I see a speck of white then two more dots of white on blue and my heart pounds in my chest ! pelicans! my soul sings a chorus of thanks to the lake to the universe to God for this moment this joy...

what I wouldn’t give for more time with you here, now I am sad and lonely now you’ve gone my heart in pieces but one day at a time I am mending myself together, again and each day it hurts a fraction of a hair’s width less to...