Deciding Not To This is a poem written about my father’s persistence in choosing life over death. Since it was written, unfortunately, Dad has passed on, though I believe he would have persisted if he could have. Deciding Not To…
In This Circumference, An Ode? – Poem of the Week Moving on from last week’s surreal No Pink Armadillo, we reach the space of lyric poetry. I could probably find you a solid, intellectual, definition of the lyric poem. But that…
No Pink Armadillo This week’s poem moves into surrealist territory. No Pink Armadillo is also what I call a slant-sonnet, which you can read more about in the blog post where I announced the original publication. It is also at least…
this week’s poem is What You Can Overhear — a poem that uses U. S. presidential administration terms to mark time
Octopus Houses OK. It’s still February. It’s still only the first half of February. But if you are in the northeastern part of the US, the gray of winter may be starting to close in on you. I need a change…
