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NaPoWriMo 2021 is over, but poetry marches on! "Misfits in the Front Row" release reading via Zoom tonight (5/1/21) at 8 PM Central, with James Benger and Sarah Worrel: https://www.facebook.com/events/942760356479229/
Immortality
Slighter than an atom is to the Earth
am I to the universe,
my life to the life of the cosmos.
A raindrop in a hurricane,
a rose petal torn off
and rushed along by storm winds,
a hummingbird's egg crushed by an...
Putting on Cyrano
For D.K.
Putting on Cyrano de Bergerac
makes everbody adolescent horny.
For a few weeks we all moon,
romantic and doomed.
You had a bit part
and I was in wardrobe,
but we were the stars
in our own star-crossed...
Social Drinking
I never drink alone.
Summer afternoon:
As I sit on my porch,
My fingers curled around
A sweating glass of scotch,
Chickadees sing to me
And cicadas gossip.
A shy breeze flirts, kissing
My cheek with her cool lips
Before...
Predation Proud
The eagle is old.
His feathers are greasy, ragged, lousy.
Half-blind, he blinks against the sun
he once looked in the face, equal to equal.
Hungry. He’s always hungry.
He spies a wake of vultures
tearing at a rotting...