This is for John and Mary and the rest of my poetry group.
Coffee and a crossword now The farmers market later College football on TV after that How could Sunday ever top that?
Dozens of face masks In varied sizes, materials, and co… Were shoved into a coffee can Over the course of the pandemic. Tossing them into the garbage toda…
As he calmly read his speech announcing his submission It was clear the Dems have no lea… to offer up real opposition. Now Trump and Elon will have the…
Exploding rockets Raining debris all over So sad for Elon!
Chicago’s party of the summer is the Pride parade up north It’s boozier than St. Patrick’s… Less explosive than the 4th Lots of people dance and play
Trump styled himself as “the fucki… Meaning he could do anything he wa… To remain in power, whatever the c… He dispatched an armed mob to our… To overturn a fair election and se…
With floodwaters up to her waist A woman in Florida scrolls through her smartphone. Those devices really have taken over our lives,
O crying child Up in the sky Above the ocean blue! You’ll grow someday And maybe hear
As I understand it, here’s what a… First, select the best words for s… Then bind them together with an ir… Tweak them as needed, to make the… And turn them loose, so the world…
We have come to equate “fortune” w… as in “that outfit must have cost… but its real meaning is more abstr… Whenever the Roman goddess Fortun… it meant that things went well for…
We met her today and her daughter, as well But Trump and his people have made their lives hell. They embraced our democracy
For nearly 20 years my family and… Visited the Outer Cape in Massac… Wellfleet, to be exact. And it relaxed me in a way that nothing else could ever do.
I shall dance no more with rhythmless guilty feet. The saxophone played. George Michael’s “Careless Whisp… Will haunt us all forever.
Since April is National Poetry M… (#NationalPoetryMonth) perhaps this is the best time for writing Zip Odes to release my creative impulses.
The path of life is never smooth, or direct, or free from detours
