He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they