Morning Light

Part I: To Lilly, Love Izzy

1. Smudged

Sometimes I have nightmares

of the last time I saw you alive.

Lying in the hospital bed,

your face looks slightly smudged,

a momentary Monet impression… Read full post »

Sometimes I have nightmares

of the last time I saw you alive.

Lying in the hospital bed,

your face looks slightly smudged,

a momentary Monet impression on my mind.

Something resembling Vaseline and tape

is keeping tubes inside your… Read full post »

black night

you need only to shake me

gently to wake me

from a staggered anxious sleep

we move quietly

in my dark room

dancing with the faint shadows

awakening with the morning light

making only small noises… Read full post »

Slice the ten-pound block

of dripping fresh mozzarella,

and with it – our differences

divided by seventy years and

two generations,

a couple of world wars and

a great depression,

a civil rights movement and

a technological revolution,… Read full post »

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way
keeps calling to us.  Us, the most fleeting of all.
Once for each thing.  Just once; no more.  And we too,
just once.  And never again. … Read full post »

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way
keeps calling to us.  Us, the most fleeting of all.
Once for each thing.  Just once; no more.  And we too,
just once.  And never again.  But to/… Read full post »

In a letter, my mother once described me to someone as her rock. 

At first I was a little peeved by this, considering it was juxtaposed to a lengthy, detailed description of my brother.

Ryan is a free spirit who doesn't stay in one place… Read full post »

I.

I saw her first on a cold day in April, as I was riding along the border of filth and freedom.

By chance only, I released my eyes from the weight of the road and my muddied mind

and glanced to my left. 

 … Read full post »