I’m tickled to have two poems in The Sunlight Press this week, although “tickled” doesn’t exactly match the tone of the poems. But it’s best to take some sweet with the bitter, right? Warm thanks to Editors Beth Burrell and Rudri Bhatt Patel who were wonderful communicators and cheerleaders. I recommend The Sunlight Press for reading and submitting. Continue reading Poems in The Sunlight Press
Beyond & WithinWalk horizonless, gaze curiously,recognize, understand the birds,the trees, the entire sky.It no longer feels impossible,something peaks and it feelslike forever, where a songis not rain, buta delicate wing. Na/GloPoWriMo day 11 prompt: Write an erasure/blackout poem. I chose a page at random from Bird Box by Josh Malerman. Screenshot of the page is below. Continue reading Beyond & Within
Editor Diane Gottlieb was interviewed by JMWW EiC Olga Katsovskiy about Grieving Hope, a volume that includes my micro-chapbook, Offset Melodies. The interview is intensive and filled with good advice for writers of micro and flash. Check it out! Continue reading Grieving Hope Interview
Thank you, Editors! Continue reading 2 New Poems in Revolution John
A Hundred Kinds of Flowers: A CentoBreak open and never close again.Every morning I want tokneel down, still in love with life, the pieceof God that is insideof each of us.I don’t know exactly whata prayer is, I do know … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Hundred Kinds of Flowers
Spring MorningUnfolds as soft as the lushestcashmere, a light breezeflows over skin as cool and sweetas the clearest, most virgin waterat the beginning of time.Squirrels, birds, and tiny insectschatter, tweet, and wiggle in adoringluxury where time matters not at allexcept in anticipation of tomorrow’s dawn.NaPoWriMo 4/23/25 – 9:45 am sitting on the patio with Buddy Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Spring Morning
a secret closedin a swampsmearedoff the mapnever to returnmistakes survivedhurricanesbegan to diestill true Erasure poem created from the essay “Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife” by Wendy Brennen in Oxford American, Spring 2024. I took a few … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Down the Bayou
Baby girlMake smoke of marbleChampagne of lifeLet laughing dance toWomanly likes It’s day 12 of NaPoWriMo & I visited the online Magnetic Poetry Kit. Not bad advice, huh? My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.” Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: A Quick & Dirty Ditty
Reunion DanceI got a room at the top of the world tonight,on a sultry Summer night I drive into town.Where neon flashes & voices are brightin barrooms & nightclubs, a chaotic sightin kaleidoscope movement my body drowns.I got a room … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Reunion Dance
AuntieSitting on the old porchwhere so many have sat,the almond tree bloomingher white flowers likeAngel wings covering the yard in a magic carpet,the aroma of our coffee and cigarettes mingling with the muskiness of the old woodunder our bare feet, you reached out taking my hand in yours, telling me something about my own self, cushioning the shock in your breezy-soft voice,leaving my mouth dry as the swirling ashes of the secret revealed Today for NaPoWriMo I used this Sensory Prompt from Poetry Today by Maya C. Popa: #1 — In “How Far Away We Are,” Ada Limón writes: I … Continue reading NaPoWriMo & Something Small, Every Day: Auntie
