Poem: Poetry Night
Poetry Night For Jim You’d come in with your button-up shirt and tie, American flag pin, beaming smile, and oversized suit jacket. I imagined your small frame must have been a little bigger at some point, but I doubt your...
Tagged: Poetry
Poem: Untitled
Someone will ask how the funeral went. I’ll say it was beautiful. They’ll ask if I’m glad I went, and I’ll lie and say yes. I won’t tell them how I packed a room full of mourners’ grief...
Poem: Message in a Bottle
Message in a Bottle I put these things quietly into the world – social media likes, encouragement, support, book reviews, poems – my handwriting scrawled across lined sheets, placed carefully into bottles, tossed into the sea. I never know if...
Poem: As Anyone
I am different than you than anyone. I am uncomfortable in my own skin of differentness wondering why I can’t get in line with everyone else. I am the same as you as anyone. I am an echo or cliché...
Poem: Amongst the Stars
I sit amongst the stars waiting, resting. Perhaps I should come down settle my toes into the earth. But I can’t imagine settling so close to things that are buried. It might be too easy to pick up a shovel...
