I'm not sure you'll get this. I'm not sure I care. As if you care! Who knows! This is just to tell you that I broke that dish You gave me years ago. I'm sure you know the one. How strange. Looking down I saw a piece in each hand. I was just washing it And thinking of you. God, I...

We shoved off. I took starboard, you took port and rudder, I the jib. The rising sail puffs proudly, slackens then inhales in sport. Will we have shifting gusts or calm or gale? Above the ribbons, one on either side, take turns, to flutter, fall, flash red or green to signal changes...

I later heard she almost died. Although she didn't try to keep the fact from me, the how and how come wasn't mine to know. My feelings weren't her first priority. So when I heard, I had the time to think. I didn't see her, call-- as I was bid. Another time I might have forced a...

You tutored me. Can still recite by rote the who and whom begats. On details drilled I mastered cues to quote the anecdote and when to laugh or sigh 'mid tales distilled of rogues revealed, a fateful curse fulfilled. Can catalogue the foods you love and hate, the stars, the styles. In...

I went into the staff room on my break. I opened up the 'fridge and got inside. The door slammed shut. That made the bottles shake. Good sign at least, the light stayed on. I tried but failed to find a latch. I thought: “Cold trap! To yell would use up all the air in here. To sleep...

That brilliant paradox on Keats' Urn would seem the pinnacle of art. But truth is rarely beautiful I've learned and beauty's seldom truthful, ask my heart. In some way every simile is true, yet faced with truth we mostly ask for lies. While often pretty things please me and you, an...

You're looking for a wizard? Don't look here. (I'm no Professor Marvel. I'm a sham.) Whenever I sense someone's need or fear, I play the part. I let them think I am. It's true I lie, but as a poet lies. We both were boring Kansas born and bred. (I think it's black and white life we...

I've not been one to tell you how to drive. It's your car, your gas. I'm here for the ride. Right now, it's up to you when we arrive. But this is what I'm seeing from my side. When fearing that we're moving way too fast, you panic, citing doubts and finding fault, as somehow,...

When I consider how our income's spent as aimlessly we wander far and wide, or find receipts and bills you tried to hide from me, I wonder where our money went. Good reasons for each purchase you present if I object or whine or tease or chide. The swelling of our debt we've both...

Before my birth words showered down on me. Before I spoke I understood. I tried. I called. I named. I chatted thoughtlessly engulfed in rapid discourse, surging pride. Before I read I knew the picture book. From letters sounds and syllables arose, till I was swept away at every...