The star spangled banner blared at the start / and end of each day, and the spot / where we stood when it began was where / we’d stand for the duration.
Service Hymn
Three Poems
God says words in Night that Night don’t know / how to hold so it gives’em to me.
Elegy on the Mourning of My Death
Elders have stopped reading the news. We dream / of serious play down on our knees— / cat’s eyes, jacks, the kiss that’s for keeps.
Tornado Warning
Silence meant trouble, / / a brewing. I prayed for thunder.
Wavelengths
When summer releases its hold, this isn’t my place / to hunker with a knife and cards / / and watch day delay starting.
No One Can Move Me the Way that You Do,
belts out Cyndi Lauper, but it could’ve just as easily / been Saint Teresa of Avila crooning for Jesus: / nothing replaces the feeling between me and you.
2020 Orison Anthology Nominees
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Last Rites
Lord, bless the undertaker who makes the news / for burying the Boston Marathon bomber / when no one else will
2020 Best of the Net Nominees
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Psaltery & Lyre 