new year’s day regifting my mother’s meds
Month: January 2019
a grid of white squares
on the calendar
doing life
editing a line
the cigarette coal's
precarious length
paging through
another evening
deep winter
all the trappings
of a privileged upbringing
hothouse tomato
winter storm
the winding heap
of apple peel
scrolling through old friends accomplishments winter stars
the ins and outs
of a social network
–ant colony
so real
these plastic flowers-
my butterfly mind
winter’s end
an old man’s cough
in the crow’s caw
the line
to his IV drip
morning glories
once a school…
tulips line
the hospice drive
(Previously appeared in The Betty Drevniok Award, Honorable Mention, 2018)
eraser dust
the touch and go
of perfection
winter moon
dad’s watch
in my sock drawer
soft rain
on mountain wildflowers —
my mother’s voice
monsoons begin with each day's rains
the hills turn greener greener
Originally appeared in beyond the horizon beyond (Vishwakarma Publications 2017)
summer day
the fisherman
catches a wave
midsummer lull
the ants
regroup
sultry night
slack spun into the line
of spider’s silk
late summer
what the cicadas insist
I know
change of trains
a busker hurries through
the minute waltz
moon shadow where the singer takes a breath