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Smoke from a neighbor’s bonfire drifts into my yard. He’s burning leaves and logs, has invited me over this evening for a wiener roast, and though I appreciate the invitation, I declined. I want to be alone when I...

It’s a balmy July evening, and I’m perched on the back-porch steps of our house on Hinman Avenue. The yard is replete with a profusion of fireflies. It’s as if the dark wears a cloak of tiny, gold lanterns that...

Kurt Lurvey parks in his wheelchair at the front door to St. John’s Church and repeats, over and over, “Have a nice day.” Clearly he does. His congregation must. I watch nearby to stay out of his way. He wears a blue life...

Kurt Lurvey interrupts two surgeons in the hospital elevator debating spine procedures. He advises them his scoliosis job went well. He wore a halo brace screwed to his skull and shows them the scars. The docs stiffen. Then...

I love reading poetry getting filled by a single prodigious line that can and does captivate me for days fleshy tears of strong leaves pushing up into air* unfurls something in me a connection to another time, space, experience...

poems written on the page waiting in the wings nervous-excited to step on stage once they hear their cue enter stage left into bright lights all nerves and false bravado once the first line is delivered the rest gushes out the...

Do you remember the days my love/when we used to swoon at the fresh-cut/smell of petrol and we’d load up the soft-top/black and bronze shiny shiny/head out on the highway in our dreams/before you became an accountant, or perhaps...

Pulling out onto a shallow bend on a blind summit/not really knowing whether there is a vehicle approaching (but it would be perfectly safe if the vehicle were not speeding)/it could be that I will fail for once to repress the...

I deem it a cruel twist of my existence to encounter so often a flinted paradox too exquisitely tuned to my softness to be random. What kind of omnipotence imparts a deep peace to be in a house made of wood, and then horror to...