I.
THREE LOOKS OUT OF A WINDOW1
1.
In October my daughter Mercedes had her baby. Aileen had sent me a pattern for a baby poncho, and I was at the window ...
casually
i invited this
casualty
in the battle for my soul
nauseously
i regret not stepping
cautiously
through the enemy's minefield
painfully
i look up once ...
Sky happened today, in the middle of the black night
With my gentle radio, sitting crossed at the computer. Sudden patch of sky!
Loved it, loved it. It was ...
I can't feel my life anymore
There is triumph in
no-thing to nothing
And
I knew You
Lost in the cadence of
Mireless laughter and the
peace and sting ...
Not even the pouring-down rain could stop the blazing furnace. Bent over, heaving heavy breaths into the crisp autumn air, Daniel wished for a swell of water to...
Such a glorious deception
The heavens stare down
at their reflection
While little do they know or see
The life so far below that be
Beneath the glossy image lie...
A hornets’ nest is easily disturbed. There is a balm
in drums below the loam. It froths forth, settles,
grows. Say the moon makes symphonies of waves
and I will...
A choir boy sings a soft song
And the halls echo with pure flames
A man is softly weeping
Mary looks down on him
And sees sorrow
The choir sings of hope
A w...
A million summers ago I was the youngest son
in a humble home with seven brothers, and it was spring
as long as I could remember.
I sat in the fields by day, gr...