Knees
I’ve no such use for new knees,those new titanium knees.They weren’t there, in the garden,planting our first seeds, gravel pockedand stinging. They weren’t thereto scrub stains from the floorboards.They never…
Month: March 2020
The Maple
Published in “Poetic Medicine in the Time of Pandemic” ©2020 by Lotus Leaf LLC.
Rain
Is this how stone hears rain?What an odd question to pose.But there it is: Is thisHow stoneHears rain? For now, today,this moment,this hour,this house.this body,this grain, Sits, As raindrapes over…
The Bath
So buoyant, the bath, the salts,the uncreaked bones, the knoband socket, like that blasé afternoonwith its shallow sun and lotions,with its plinkos and tokens –that cool and wayward drifton a…
Once the Pagans of Patapsco Wood
We laid snake bone by the rootsof the four trees fused at the waist. We dug tourmaline in the creekbed,dry that time of year and every yearbetween honeysuckle loam and…
The Sick Child
Published in “La Piccioletta Barca” – Issue 18 – April 2020: https://picciolettabarca.com/issues/issue-18/
Dear Father – a prayer
Dear Father,May I ask that I come not to the anvilas a hammer, but as steel,red from the furnace, young to the sledge. It is not for meto strike a…
Silk
Published in “La Piccioletta Barca” — Issue 19 — May 2020 https://www.picciolettabarca.com/issues/issue-19
Sweet and Bitter Greens 