Poetry

  • February 4, 2025

    A Poem on the Wind

    A poem on the wind lands wherever it's taken, whether in your thoughts or mine, or on the dry red…

  • January 27, 2025

    Keep Moving

    Just keep moving,across the open field and into the woods.Don’t look back until you reach the sea.Run until your lungs…

  • January 14, 2025

    Looking for Real

    The world I have come to know is just an artificial display of holographic shapes gliding across my line of…

  • April 12, 2024

    Get the Message

    A poem is an equation written on the wind,riding on memory from one seer to the next,ancient as the spoken…

  • March 30, 2023

    The Great Nagurski’s Blocking Guard

    Alec Bobedash, the great Nagurski’sblocking guard, stands at the sternbent to raise the outboard motorover the sandy bottom ferns.The channel…

  • March 21, 2023

    The Other Way from You

    I’d been told that some former Colorado Springs poets laureate were going to read at the old Knights of Columbus…

  • Volcanic eruption cloud near a town
    February 15, 2023

    Hiroshima

    Bright light, whiter than the sun,glittered for an instantbefore the sound split my earsand I dissolved,my last and only thoughtthat…

  • Dirt road crossing
    February 15, 2023

    Recovery

    I wanted to return to some imaginary lifebased on a collection of unstable memories I thought were real.I would gaze…