THE DANGLING LINES OF TIME
change you will
your underwear, your oil, your car, your wife, your children,
your underarm deodorant, your overalls,
your designation, your birthmarks, your will & estate,
your long-range goals, your hard-boiled eggs,
your nails and soup, your rusty soles,
your dusty shoes, your trusty dog,
your 9-life cat, your coat and hat,
your car & rails and suit and tails
The greatest journey
The greatest journey is not the journey
where you go from point A to point B,
Read MorePerky The Pidgeon
I chose parenting later in life.
My first-born is a pidgeon. He resides on my balcony.
He actually has 2 ‘real’ parents, but they don’t spend much time here anymore. Perhaps – given that the tedious days of egg-sitting are over – they’ve gone south to Vegas to party and forget for a while.
Read MoreThe Afternoon Rush
I Lost My Head
This Hour
Thinking of You
Remembering Me
Courting the Distance
Forgetting To See
Understand your sweet breath
Believe me or not,
from our birth you and i,
we were trained like a dog,
trained in what is right and what is wrong,
trained in what is good and what is bad,
trained in who is and who isn’t our god.