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adapted from William Shakespeare for Vicki Fraser (1965 – 2023) I wrote this song when I heard you were dead. In hopes it will find you in the beyond and break the news that I’ve lost the thread that holds … Continue reading →

Our long days shaped by wind and snow ice encasing limbs of the tallest trees dangerous sidewalks appear safe each step measured before taken We’re worried about rising seas we must do more than write letters officials obfuscate in the … Continue reading →

I hear them gearing up for battle – old war-horses brought back to drill us with intemperate speech. Mothers and fathers, wives and children urged on to crowd the roadsides and cheer. We’re here again, but this time, mourning. . … Continue reading →

the advantage of beingnumerous selves a well-spoken choralesimplicity themselves carrying everything with themresting only occasionallypouring broken existencesinto versejuxtaposing silk curtainsand utensilsa tolerance for being lostontologicallyfinding themselves on the frontiermaking a lean-to

not yet spring        and a cold wind blows through him to the bones words of elderly and dying residents of the hospice        stay with him voices of broken men        living on the streets        echo in him he listens to their … Continue reading →

EIGHTY-ONE truthful words aren’t always beautifuland beautiful words can avoid the truth I argue, say ugly wordsthink I’m after the truth I swear I knowbut I don’t holding tight to my truthI’m wrong the Tao of Lao Tzu says do … Continue reading →

While we are watching Seinfeld reruns He is staring into the blue radiation of the news He’s the one who hears about a leak and gets the implications He’s among the ones who count (and recount) every vote Staying awake … Continue reading →