Poetry

You Know One When You See One

Through The Glass, Clearly

After Burning The Wooden Sword To Ashes

We Are Stardust Meant to Shine

The Nothing Behind Henry Miller Library’s Old Wooden Fence

A Writer’s El Dorado

From There to Where?

Once The Bird Has Flown

What To (Not) Do

On The Day Of The Fourth Amigo

Something Like Finding Obscure Figures In That Image Puzzle Inside That Magazine While At The Doctor’s Waiting Room

Growing Younger As The Sun Goes Down

Brothers Chosen

Two Bigger Birds Getting Smaller Fly Towards New Names

For the Love of Rocks

Perhaps Why A Poet

Amid Talk Of Placing Solar Panels On The U.S.’ Very Own Berlin Wall

So Gingerly We Take The Statues Down

For Those Who Travel Without Maps

Strange Travelers Once 1984 Set in Hard

Mealtime, If Fortunate, Just Prior

Just On The Other Side of the Candle And The Ray

One Way To Enlist For Duty In WWIII

Vincent van Gogh in a Field of Wheat with David Foster Wallace

Urban Distances

Prose

“A Just Verdict” is published in Pennsylvania Literary Journal’s Fall 2022 issue.

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Mom pulled our old Dodge Charger in next to the curb on a street alongside the theater. When she looked at me, her mouth smiled but her eyes narrowed. Perhaps, like me, she felt embarrassed. I kissed her on the cheek. “I’ll be okay, Mom.”

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Pearls in the Mist

“Pearls in the Mist” is published in Patricia Hamilton’s book, Life In Pacific Grove California.

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I never wanted to have a piercing, but then here I am with a shiny bangle in my right ear. They shot me up with some primo smack, I’ll tell you that much, when sending me off into paranoia-land, to get the hole punched in my lobe. All in all, I’m pretty sure it’s not…

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