Poem: Poetry Night
Poetry Night For Jim You’d come in with your button-up shirt and tie, American flag pin, beaming smile, and oversized suit jacket. I imagined your small frame must have been a little bigger at some point, but I doubt your...
Category: Poetry
Poem: Untitled
Someone will ask how the funeral went. I’ll say it was beautiful. They’ll ask if I’m glad I went, and I’ll lie and say yes. I won’t tell them how I packed a room full of mourners’ grief...
Poem: Message in a Bottle
Message in a Bottle I put these things quietly into the world – social media likes, encouragement, support, book reviews, poems – my handwriting scrawled across lined sheets, placed carefully into bottles, tossed into the sea. I never know if...
Poem: As Anyone
I am different than you than anyone. I am uncomfortable in my own skin of differentness wondering why I can’t get in line with everyone else. I am the same as you as anyone. I am an echo or cliché...
Poem: What Hides Behind My Smile
Teeth know better than anyone what a person is going through. When my grandfather died they packed together at night clenching, trying to hold each other. They see salty rivers pass by when the dam breaks and the lips don’t...
