Poetry

  Revision Each month comes the reminderof the gash God made in me.I like to think He made itwith one...

  Bamboo, the Dance          How free and lush the bamboo grows, the bamboo grows and growsShoots and morasses, fillies and...

  The Conservatory Every cup of sugar borrowed from a neighbordissolves and disappears, never, as faras I know, returned or...

  Elegy with Civil War Shadowbox   In the wake of the towers’ collapse, there were e-mails and memos,strategic advice...

  “a safe, well-defined, acceptable unknown”……….—René Magritte In the arranging of morning, somethinggets lost, a comb or an idea, most...

  Little Red Riding Hood/Companion And those other females who managed to slip the collar for a moment or two...

  Black Woman Don’t knock at my door, little child,….I cannot let you in,You know not what a world this...

  Whosoever Holds This Hammer Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor. Before...

  Frances of the Cadillac Under her tongue, there was a story.In her mouth, nails. Frances hammered license platesto the...

  The Tale of the Earth There is an earth inside youand he howls until his feetpierce the spacebetween your...