We broke up with acrimony / but the problem wasn't us. / Self-appointed middlemen / complicated our relationship
Apostate’s Prayer
Category: Poetry
Corona Way
The sea squirt is born with a primitive brain and one eye. It cruises the ocean, and when it finds a surface to fasten to, the squirt eats its own eye and brain. Without movement, it no longer needs them.
Ghost Forest
Backlit by city and refinery’s glow / these cypress bones shimmer
Three Poems
When my father speaks to God he says, / the loneliness, the loneliness.
You Won’t Find Him in the Iliad
he hears a call and looks up to see / great golden wings of an eagle / oaring through the sky
Surface Tension
Water striders walk / on fluid skin, feet / faintly bending surface, / push-back propelling
Fagaceae Quercus Virginiana
When someone says broken / family they mean broken / like a promise, like a bone, / like a dish.
A Long Time Coming
O, Lady of the Masks, tell me: / how are your hands holding up / / as you gently push the pedal, control / the needle, hum a soft tune to no one
in the forest, birdsong echoes
how can I, how can I / is not what the songbird said / but something similar
Psaltery & Lyre 