Poem: Lonely Gallery

Yellow light streams from open windows
Shining from living rooms and bedrooms
And all those other rooms
Where people move about sharing a meal
Or a kiss or horseback rides
Life framed by white panels and glass

Poem: Shatter Star

A single star in the night bares your name
From that night you asked me to pick one
To remember you every time
I looked up and you weren’t there
Holding the knowledge
That the star was closer to me
Than you would ever be again

Poem: Disturbed Snow

Another Monday morning
Coffee is on and poured
Hot and black
A contrast to the cold and white
Falling softly in sheets

Poem: Gnomic American

Made in America
Just like mom’s apple pie
Johnny was always the Apple of her eye

From small beginnings he came to great things
Though for the root of evil is money
And a doctors faults are covered with earth
And a rich man’s with money

Poem: Undefined

The sound of the evening
Of a beach with her standing there
Moon behind her hanging
Like a halo around her hair
Done like she always did it
In that favorite shirt of mine
Holding her in all the right places

Poem: Mittens

Memories of mother always bring warmth
In the cold winter months
That smell of snow while I smell our kitchen
Roasting meats and hot stews
Just barely overpowering the woodsmoke
That permeates the home in all seasons
And there is mother in her apron

Poem: UnCivil War

Lips draw tight
In battle lines
Stretching across
Dinner tables
Where brother
Versus brother
Stares daggers

Poem: Perfect Union

Wind sweeps over the battlefield
Carrying the silence
To the ears of the general
While his eyes look over the field
Filled with blood and ichor
Friend and foe frozen in eternal struggles
In the same dirty earth
Resting in eternal peace

Poem: Sequoia Snow

Stark grey skies
Shed frozen tears
Into the silence
Between red trunks
And green pine needles
Broken only by the song
Of the sparrow and thrush

Poem: Uprising

Skin
Has always been judge and jury
And executor

Judged as subhuman
Because of skin
Stock animals to be sold
Traded, worked until broken
Until we rose up