the cemetery
a bag blowing past
says THANK YOU
*
visiting Van Gogh
feeling all the people
we didn't
*
as many cracks
as days
a doll’s face
*
autumn morning
somewhere you change color
without me
*
chipped glasses
plates with hairline cracks
not a bad marriage
*
something in you the way
autumn trees
pretend to shiver
*
cool autumn morning
awakened by small feet
racing away
*
children share secrets
clear sap
from an unseen center
*
old porcelain dolls
in the nursing home
every crack speaks
*
autumn leaves
the colors a warning
a celebration
*
autumn leaves
fall on the railroad tracks…
is this a joke?
*
autumn market
different gourds
with the same problems
*
autumn morning
something running fast over
my head wakes me
*
hometown years later
even the creek’s
changed beds
*
groundhog hibernates
our clocks slow down
then reverse
*
the vacant house's
welcome mat
snowflake by snowflake
*
autumn morning
cold finds
a tooth’s crack
*
ANTIQUES store window
autumn leaves reflect
over old metal
*
winter morning
a tree that killed its children
waves at me
*
October schoolbus
autumn leaves board
in a hurry
*
asking what number
snowstorm this is
no one knows
*
autumn morning
the carp turn
slower circles
*
under canal leaves
disgust a century old
wedding ring smolders
*
waking in cold
to write of coldness
warms me
*
autumn crickets
a tempo
tells a story
*
autumn crickets:
imagine dying
without loneliness
*
funeral champagne
tiny bubbles stroke
forgotten places
*
reading obits
an unseen jet rumbles
towards no one’s home
*
in time
the pleasures of time
replace the pleasures
of place
*
my old school
my stomach rumbles
on its stone
*
the kid eating stones
on the playground
is a bird
*
the only thing
weirder than words
what they replace
*
a leaf falls
in the cemetery
a sort of Thank You
*
Van Gogh
freezes the cornfield
before winter
*
Van Gogh's cornfields
just before winter
forever
*
Van Gogh's paintings
lose color every year…
the snakeskins no one finds
*
missing each other
by mere eons
you and God
*
museum room
full of paintings the feeling
we just missed God
*
weather report
from behind icy fingers
on her nipples
*
snowstorm
all the infidelities
need rescheduling
*
Indian summer
an affair that promised to end
shops for skis
*
we visit you
in a cemetery
to talk about debt
*
dead winter
on my dad’s grave a twenty
under a rock
*
winter morning
you wake and your lover
is years away
*
winter morning
all the lovers on this bus
look like boxers
*
winter morning
lost coffees left on buses
tell us their names
*
winter to spring
a bus kiosk’s plexiglas
scratched like home
*
a real home
even the diamond
has scratches
*
autumn light
the clock turns backwards
when we do
*
autumn leaves
I can’t decide
on a collage
*
winter night ocean
still growing colors
in abalone
*
buried love
the night ocean
colors abalone
*
buried love
the night ocean
mothers pearl
*
visiting Van Gogh
feeling all the purple
we aren't
a bag blowing past
says THANK YOU
*
visiting Van Gogh
feeling all the people
we didn't
*
as many cracks
as days
a doll’s face
*
autumn morning
somewhere you change color
without me
*
chipped glasses
plates with hairline cracks
not a bad marriage
*
something in you the way
autumn trees
pretend to shiver
*
cool autumn morning
awakened by small feet
racing away
*
children share secrets
clear sap
from an unseen center
*
old porcelain dolls
in the nursing home
every crack speaks
*
autumn leaves
the colors a warning
a celebration
*
autumn leaves
fall on the railroad tracks…
is this a joke?
*
autumn market
different gourds
with the same problems
*
autumn morning
something running fast over
my head wakes me
*
hometown years later
even the creek’s
changed beds
*
groundhog hibernates
our clocks slow down
then reverse
*
the vacant house's
welcome mat
snowflake by snowflake
*
autumn morning
cold finds
a tooth’s crack
*
ANTIQUES store window
autumn leaves reflect
over old metal
*
winter morning
a tree that killed its children
waves at me
*
October schoolbus
autumn leaves board
in a hurry
*
asking what number
snowstorm this is
no one knows
*
autumn morning
the carp turn
slower circles
*
under canal leaves
disgust a century old
wedding ring smolders
*
waking in cold
to write of coldness
warms me
*
autumn crickets
a tempo
tells a story
*
autumn crickets:
imagine dying
without loneliness
*
funeral champagne
tiny bubbles stroke
forgotten places
*
reading obits
an unseen jet rumbles
towards no one’s home
*
in time
the pleasures of time
replace the pleasures
of place
*
my old school
my stomach rumbles
on its stone
*
the kid eating stones
on the playground
is a bird
*
the only thing
weirder than words
what they replace
*
a leaf falls
in the cemetery
a sort of Thank You
*
Van Gogh
freezes the cornfield
before winter
*
Van Gogh's cornfields
just before winter
forever
*
Van Gogh's paintings
lose color every year…
the snakeskins no one finds
*
missing each other
by mere eons
you and God
*
museum room
full of paintings the feeling
we just missed God
*
weather report
from behind icy fingers
on her nipples
*
snowstorm
all the infidelities
need rescheduling
*
Indian summer
an affair that promised to end
shops for skis
*
we visit you
in a cemetery
to talk about debt
*
dead winter
on my dad’s grave a twenty
under a rock
*
winter morning
you wake and your lover
is years away
*
winter morning
all the lovers on this bus
look like boxers
*
winter morning
lost coffees left on buses
tell us their names
*
winter to spring
a bus kiosk’s plexiglas
scratched like home
*
a real home
even the diamond
has scratches
*
autumn light
the clock turns backwards
when we do
*
autumn leaves
I can’t decide
on a collage
*
winter night ocean
still growing colors
in abalone
*
buried love
the night ocean
colors abalone
*
buried love
the night ocean
mothers pearl
*
visiting Van Gogh
feeling all the purple
we aren't
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