How many men came to my birthday party? And who’s counting my candles now? Joe said to our chef/baker Kelly, who he’s been getting my birthday cake from for about 20 years, “She took a couple of years off because she wanted pie.” “I know, but I knew she’d be back,” Kelly said. She was […]
Aka What to Wear to a Dream The thought has to drop like a pin to the floor In a bottomless dream it stakes a claim With a prick of interest that doesn’t draw blood and won’t wake you up until morning You struggle to stitch what a bookmark keeps separate You wait for the […]
1. Rush or gush? 2. “Wear a mask; not a tin foil hat. Also, science is real.” – my friend Kanta 3. “Bat shit crazy” has taken on a whole new meaning in this pandemic world. 4. THIS Inflatable Hunk Pool Float Wants to Be Your Summer Boyfriend 5. I’m more of a boomer than […]
Pandemic staycation Where lovers leap A Mother’s Day abduction The hike was too steep When you can’t get a haircut or get to an art gallery An alien sighting while wildflower hiking______Our World Tuesday
If the shoe fits, wear it If the song lifts, hear it Don’t wait till midnight __________Poets and Storytellers United
My Poem “Slow Burn” was recently published in Floyd County Moonshine, a regional publication “over ten years in production, brewing up smooth home distilled literature,” their website reads. HERE is the 2008 review I wrote for The Floyd Press about the publication’s inaugural issue. I also have three photographs in the new issue. The one […]
1. Where does the sound of a bell go? 2. “We fell asleep in one world, and woke up in another. Suddenly Disney is out of magic, Paris is no longer romantic, New York doesn’t stand up anymore, The Chinese wall is no longer a fortress, and Mecca is empty. Hugs & kisses suddenly become […]
Our grandson Liam (9) wanted to see the house we described to him in the Rock Castle Gorge from when families still lived there. He had the idea of sleeping in the abandoned house as a challenge but settled for looking in the windows. Known as the Austin Connor house, it was built in 1916 […]
People used to live in the Rock Castle Gorge when communities were self- sufficient, before the industrial revolution and before the blight of the chestnut tree that provided chestnuts to feed the hogs and a commodity to trade. The Gorge was named Rock Castle because it was once filled with quartz crystals, which popped out […]
Dreams are like movies of untrue stories that are based on real life But the locations where they’re set are places that exist in dimensions only accessed through deep sleep I’ve seen them more than once Some are loved and missed Some details have been changed but the ground remains the same There are no […]
The last few weeks of my brother’s lives played out like the conclusion of a dramatic Hollywood script, a plot with a twist. The road trip they took, two weeks before the first death, became the beginning of a larger journey, the one in which they would both leave this world. I have decided to […]
