Category Archives: Poetry

Shall I indulge in courtroom fantasy? Shall I imagine Brutus at the bar, compelled to learn from law’s authority how petty-criminal his tantrums are? Or shall I calm myself and settle back, and add this to the worries I collect? … Continue reading →

I bathed a kitten in the bathroom sink, released the drain and watched the water flow – along with kitten legs. I didn’t think that hole would pose a threat. I didn’t know what else to do – I pulled … Continue reading →

Aroma wreathed around my neck, against my cheeks, upon my brow: the talcum scent of new wisteria encircled tensed impelling calves, caressed my arms and spent itself on canted slabs of sidewalk, curbs with stenciled numbers, gutters filled with spume … Continue reading →

Apparently you act by tacit rules that everyone has memorized but me, as if you all attended secret schools of age- and gender-based propriety. A manly woman or a childish sage can’t find examples of the adverse stroke across the … Continue reading →

The smoke is laminating through the air in horizontal zones of grayish white that sting my eyes and dry my throat and tear to streaks the softness of the evening light. The music thrums like weapons in my ears. Competing … Continue reading →

Nutrition, shelter, offspring: these propel us all, we know, for so the experts speak. Now some add altered consciousness, and tell us getting high’s another goal we seek. But are these all? Are we that simply framed and limited, by … Continue reading →

The Talmud’s name for God appears to be the fragment “Holy One, blesséd be He.” And though the phrase was not in English made, and by translation casts a flimsy shade, the “blesséd” intimates an agency that showers favor on … Continue reading →

A purple petal hanging from a strand of spider web, between a branch and ground, appears suspended, managed by a hand nobody sees: confetti small and round. And stacked atop a station garbage can, a homeless monitor and CPU with … Continue reading →