Monthly Archives: April 2022

wheels to my bicycle would you call it a semi, for it would surely be an eighteen-wheeler? Or would I need a trailer would the trailer need to be tall enough to get stuck under low bridges? If I had … Continue reading →

With my elderly father (of course he is elderly, I’m sixty-two). The previous owner of the place they recently bought notified him they were taking the refrigerator. In the sales agreement, the fridge went with the seller but they had … Continue reading →

does not flicker yet, so much of my life goes in and out leaving me uncertain with no reassurances no money back guarantee, if not satisfied, only a promise that when my light goes out it wont matter to me.

Of course, having written the poem should be enough the poet, though so many seem to think so, has no reason, no need, and no expectation to have any idea what the poem might mean. Though bravely, he goes on … Continue reading →

My Mother Tongue like me, was born in Mississippi where a form of middle English is spoken if not taught. The mud eaten by some, but consumed by all flows in the water and our veins flows in our words … Continue reading →

my father was an honest and decent man but not to be trusted around figs I watched him slowly strip a fig tree of every edible fig more than once trees that did not belong to him In a land … Continue reading →

I carry a heavy red brick in the floor of the backseat of my car. It isn’t bothering anyone, as no one rides in my backseat. It is very old, and shaved smooth on one side. It was a gift … Continue reading →

The Salt Keeper I don’t use salt  but keep three shakers, and a big round box with a cheap metal pullout spout. I don’t eat rice, anymore, but I keep enough to add to the shakers now and then. When … Continue reading →

I think of the mountains to the west Yes, Denver is the “mile high city” But the mountains nearby stick up another two miles, and to the east lies hundreds of miles of rolling green treeless plains. If I could … Continue reading →