When my dog gives me that knowing… I don’t know what she knows I only know that she knows Who I’m fooling And it isn’t her

Poets are to their poems As parents are to their children Preparing them for the world Without knowing what they will do

Life has given us pumpkins ostensibly for carving and smashing but I smell an opportunity though the opportunity cost

If we know our physics is real Because GPS works Then we know our God is real Because language works

I don’t get mad I get odd

Your mind Is playing a trick on you And you are the trick But since all healing Is a form of getting over yourself

I’m always leaving things at church so the lost and found won’t be empty

Art is where the Symbolic meets the Real forming a liminal space between meaning and its absence AI-generated art is where the Unr…

Life was once a high-wire act without a net Now it’s tennis without a net

My wife fixed me with a stare that said Really, what haven’t you done for…

We should all know by now That every day is a do-over But we fail to realize That this means we’re in overtime And our version of overtime

The essay portion of the test Was explaining why The test only consists Of multiple-choice questions So, I wrote:

All movement occurs in time Will we make our move in time? Time will tell The obvious answer: All movement occurs in time

It’s not just that “Man is wolf to man” It’s that he has always known this about himself and yet

Ever since I got my first smartphone it feels like I’m visiting a museum and all the decent human beings