less water in the vase
than yesterday
nursing home
Month: July 2018
another funeral
for a childhood friend
flickering campfire
summer twilight
a long fly ball settles
into his glove
paperback romance
a bend in the spine
at the sultry part
lost love –
the snow buries
everything
another autumn
the rot reaching
into the heartwood
our back and forth
the icicle lengthens
drop by drop
late February
the last wisteria pod
drops its seed
midwinter
unrelenting
robocalls
winter rain
the dog-eared ace
shuffled back in
afternoon heat
the missing dog’s
sun-bleached poster
moonspill
on the welcome mat
an old friend’s boots
the darkness of my skin
on my soul
this stickiness
(Originally published in is/let, November 2017)
by the tiller
the sound of a dolphin
taking a breath
sometimes tame
sometimes wild
my old rocking horse
beach combing
where we made love long ago
shell shards
seeing my dentist
of twenty years
on the beach
I recognize
his eyes
summer’s end
the skin slips off
the last marshmallow
Submissions for tinywords 18.2
With Susan Mallernee?s “summer’s end” tinywords 18.1 also comes to an end. Our new submission period starts August 1, 2018.