Living in the layers

The Layers I have walked through many lives,some of them my own,and I am not who I was,though some … More

Reading and writing resources for young poets

Young Poets’ Stories project update: Today we add a reading resources for young poets page to the Young Poets’ Stories website. … More

The Schoolchildren Like leaves startled by a gust of windthey peel away from the tight-knit group,one child, two, another, more,taking … More

Simply Lit Often toward evening,after another day, afteranother year of days,in the half dark on the way homeI stop … More

Dying Nothing to be said about it, and everything –The change of changes, closer or further away:The Golden Retriever … More

The washing never gets done.The furnace never gets heated.Books never get read.Life is never completed.Life is like a ball … More

Save Us From Save us from night,from bleak open highwayswithout end, and the fluorescentoases of gas stations,from the gunning of … More

I have always believed that poems come into your life when you need them most. (That was … More

Practice To weep unbidden, to wakeat night in order to weep, to waitfor the whisker on the face of the … More

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look upat the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the fewthat … More

As Planned After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More

A Blessing in Disguise Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive … More

Mary At first a fluttering then a kick, his fist pummelling my rib cage when I knelt to pray. They … More

BC – AD This was the moment when BeforeTurned into After, and the future’sUninvented timekeepers presented arms. This was the … More

December Il va neiger dans quelques jours Francis Jammes The giant Norway spruce from Podunk, its lower branches bound, this … More

Supper Never before has she danced so well. Now she stands before him, her feet bare, Anklets lightly … More

For reasons I cannot go into here, I am finishing 2019 in a tired frame of mind. (I am not … More