Poems and Essays
Ruminations of an Angry Cow
Open Heart Surgery
Love is a large incision in the chest
a pounding heart exposed by the scalpel
The Big Bad Wolf
He sat by patiently
as one by one the hairs
on your chinny chin chin turned gray.
Stairway to Silence
Learning your step dad’s path
was no longer climbing stairs,
only falling down them
Crayola Crisis
But blue / can mean sadness
And every day / there is enough of that /
to go around / I have built no immunity /
to that shade of blue
Thick as a Brick (Refrigerator Remix)
But the hour-glass rapidly winds along
Father time casts shadows too
What do you do
When the old man is you?
There Are Times I Feel Like John Turturro
I’ve spent many a night with John Turturro
Well, to be fair, he was using
a different name at the time
Loneliness is a Persistent Muse
Loneliness is a persistent muse
who creeps unexpectedly, unwanted,
awkwardly into my thoughts,
on her terms, in her time
This Wasn’t in the Parenting Handbook
Their walls of sadness surround them, engulf them
An isolation of suffering that threatens to suffocate them
Ten Things I Remember About January 28, 1986
I didn't yet know hope could just explode,
without a warning sign
An Apology to My Red Baseball Hat
You sit neglected,
like the last kid to be picked at recess
An Unread Note to Self
Look at us dancing with gleeful abandon
as the tape of your childhood plays