O-Rings
Beneath the blinding white sky, where glaciers calve and crash [...]
Hill Country
He comes down from the hills, from The craggy rock, [...]
Picketing
For I was born, too, in the stunted winter of [...]
from “The Black Maria”
After Neil deGrasse Tyson, black astrophysicist & director of the [...]
Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back
So what if usefulness, thin as figment, but sturdier, sturdy [...]
Dragon-slayer
We knew he was coming he took his good and [...]
Selection from Tanka Diary
My tanka diary began with a wish to incorporate into [...]
Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
Eight floors below our wide-open window As early summer sang [...]
Still Life with Starlings and Man
“ But since they shipped us across the [...]
In his lover’s house, a father rises
The end’s always there at the beginning Dad said, quoting [...]