I’d never mark my stamp on you
even if I thought I could
and with lessons drawn
from father’s “tool and die, ”
...
When proud ones boast
Of all that is loftiest
In his faith,
In her flag,
...
Majestic eagles ride on thermals high
above the river’s wooded shore:
white hooded monarchs of the sky.
...
The phone rang after 2: 00 am.
Taking the steps in pairs
my legs faltered at his door -
paralyzed by denial.
...
Robin hums as she tends her garden
while birds perch all around
waiting for rustling seeds
to fill the slender columns.
...
LOVE is:
a dopamine trip
Paris in the spring
a really low tennis score.
...
The artist leaned in slowly
to his daughter’s sculpted visage,
placed a slender leaf of gold
across her ceramic brow
...
Snowfall gently covered Belleville
With a blanket of softest down –
Iridescent in the gaslight coronas.
...