PinnedFelling Difficult TreesThe Top Cut: The top cut is the first of two cuts that result in an open faced notch. The notch is made on the side of the tree that faces…Feb 23, 202451Feb 23, 202451
The ShowPhoto by Monica Silvestre: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-at-theater-713149/Dec 6, 2024Dec 6, 2024
The Last Show at the ColonialIt is the recollection of a fire. It is the creosote memory of a stair.Feb 6, 202312Feb 6, 202312
Hiraeth on Googie AvenueIt arises as a memory cloaked in vapor. Like all dreams do, surrounded by gasoline mist and the smell of tires in the August heat. The…Oct 1, 20228Oct 1, 20228
When We Became As VampiresIt came as a fever in the blood, so long ago none remember the origin. Like chicken pox, a quick virus touch and then over. Another…Feb 10, 202199Feb 10, 202199
ExpatsOf course it makes sense that the retards would be in love because like seeks like. And I still hear the low murmurs as she got on the…Jan 3, 20219Jan 3, 20219
I Bathe Radley In LanguageI bathe my dog in language. I lift his legs under spigots of nouns and rinse his paws in the flow of verbs. Adjectives mix with the soap…Oct 23, 202062Oct 23, 202062
These Foggy MorningsThe sea is coming for us all, we little barnacles clutched to the coasts waiting for the coming tide when the caps melt, the Earth heats…Oct 22, 202029Oct 22, 202029
The Radley-Swett LineI live in a land of borders, and the boundaries of my fiefdom, my medieval Brunswick, the Methamphetamine Kingdom, this sovereign land, is…Jul 24, 2020Jul 24, 2020
The Frost LineI never saw any children there, just the two of them already old when I was young, a sliver of wood smoke from a chimney in winter, and in…Nov 7, 2019Nov 7, 2019
MC1RIn the place they called Augusta General in 1973, birth defects had to be profound to be noticed. Humpbacked Mongoloids, Thalidomide…Nov 6, 2019Nov 6, 2019
Kind of WhitePrivilege doesn’t look both ways when it crosses the crosswalk, but you do. Fitfully turning one way and then the next, double checking…Aug 12, 2019Aug 12, 2019
The Empty QuarterI park next to the Devil’s Footprint and hike to the trailhead where the information sign tells me that the Allen Whitney Memorial Forest…Jul 7, 2019Jul 7, 2019
Author BioMy poem, “The Radley-Swett Line” will appear in The New Guard, Volume VII. Below is my author bio and a link to purchase the upcoming…Aug 23, 2018Aug 23, 2018
I Dreamt Of Love Like WaterI dreamt of love like water, yet I did not know water or what she could do, so I let her in to seal my cracks. The water rushed to my…Mar 16, 20181Mar 16, 20181
Did He Ask?I wonder about that night, early winter 1973, in the trailer next to my Aunt and Uncle, in the trailerpark on North Belfast Avenue. Was it…Dec 8, 2017Dec 8, 2017
The New Guard, Volume VIIMy poem, “The Radley-Swett Line” will be appearing in this volume next fall. Get your copy today!Nov 23, 2017Nov 23, 2017
