Category Archives: Poetry

Events of recent weeks have flattened me – compressed me over under through some line that hobbled thought with negativity, appropriating strengths I thought were mine. A colleague slapped an error in my face that shook my confidence, that shook … Continue reading →

Grief starts almost like heartburn creeping up in me with uneasy tightness till I pause to determine the cause of disquiet. Something is missing and the fact that I removed it or that removal is best does not repair the … Continue reading →

My friend Mara did some consulting for a real estate remediation project a couple of years ago. A Sherwin Williams store had been one of the first settlers, and that company was supportive when it came to preserving and protecting … Continue reading →

Seduced by lazy images, I wrap a U of heated cloves around my neck, empillow me in bed to make my lap a lumpy surface for a book, and trek into my favorite sleepy fantasy: a rescued noblewoman swathed in … Continue reading →

I recollect her birthday very well and his, six years more close in memory, is that much vivider – both visions tell of little people who came out of me. And I recall the business I’d begun now more than … Continue reading →

The legend reads Tear Up Your Monthly Pass, above the photo of an Oldsmobile, in tones of black and blue and windshield glass within a frame of BART train stainless steel. Is this an oxymoron for the minds of half-awake … Continue reading →

I plant my feet upon the asphalt ground and aim my focus to the west, below the sloping street, as if I would be found a decade hence a statue. Standing so I’m memorizing everything I feel: the gentle cooling … Continue reading →

I recollect a nightmare that occurred when I was five or six and learning fears, constructed on a theme at once absurd and absolutely normal for my years: My father sent me to the basement stair, but there the light … Continue reading →