Tag: poems

  • Minor Extinctions

    Minor Extinctions

    At fifty-one I am mostly sediment, with a thin layer of optimism still visible near the surface…

  • From the Sidelines

    From the Sidelines

    Do you know how it feels to stand alone in a forest in the caesura of a gathering storm? With a graceful pirouette the north wind about-faces and just as quickly a sou’ wester replaces the breathy, dry kisses of long afternoons in the sun. Drawing breath from your lungs and heat from your soles,…