A Fraught Encounter
Haibun An overcast sky, with whirls of gray splattered over blue like spilt paint on a completed canvas. Trees struggle to bud. I open the trunk of my weather-stained Legacy when Ilana calls....
Category: Poetry
Let’s Never Fight Again
Poem They say there’s an island of trash in the Pacific As big as a continent Bigger than Texas The combined efforts of years of plastics that banded together with fishing nets And...
Only In Spaghetti Westerns
Poem I saw tumbleweed for the first time and I thought: “It exists!” I am from one of those old European cities where there are no such things as tumbleweed. So I think...
Sinking Above Ground
Poem Standing at your grave surrounded by greying grass and spindly trees that reach for youth like the gnarled hands of a wise one, and wilting stones of those passed long before you...
First Experience
Haibun The family room lights are off. Daylight streams through windows flanking the chimney. She and I sit on a plaid-upholstered couch in an awkward silence. We broke up last week over an...
Белая Ночь (White Night)
Poem White night, wan night, Winter gloaming has come, A single song on the crusty snow Dies from the beak of a bird Who has sung too late; He’s the last one and...
On Longing
Poem it was the solitary light that blinked in the window across the alley and reminded me that somewhere else you were waiting for me to light my own to send you the...
Cold Light
Poem When my world went cold and dark You put a bright flame up Lit the darkest corners I am drawn to it Yet Much of me feels I’m not supposed To be...
Suit of Light
Poem There was that time I saw El Cordobéz in the city of Leganes, sharing the bill with Padilla and Encabo. El Cordobéz was in his golden traje de luces. Still impetuous, disdainful,...
Alarm Clock Pointing West
Spoken Word New Years Eve tells tales Champagne wishes bloom at night Signs they may come true Everywhere you see Plans coming to fruition Notwithstanding booze Further down the road The obstacles placed...
