THAT GERTRUDE COW for Annie the Herdswoman It was below freezing in the milking parlor. The freshly hosed down cement...
Crossing Places At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
Rocky and rolling hills give way To green green grass and a glimpse of brighter days Inland from the sea...
TOBY’S SOLILOQUY To think what stands against me still is not the harm of falling off a ladder at two-storey...
Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
Lust in the Time of Covid How can he not sneak out to meet her through the darkened streets his...
All day they mumble in a clump outside the hive. I water the days of an unexpected life. I fill...
Spring Day Blustery breezes, sunshine and sudden shower Banish hoary-handed winter from the land. Burgeoning buds and lancing leaves appear,...
You will ask—name the mushrooms on the grounded log And the anatomies of the shifting clouds. Tell me these fifty-one shells on...
There is a long dusty Kenyan road that carries me to you, Forging a likeness to the same reddened particulate...
‘Tick-tock, tick-tock’ goes the clock in the bedroom he shares with no-one. He sees that it is time to rise...
AT THE KITCHEN TABLE The late spring snow catches us off-guard, drifts against the henhouse wall, blots out the distant...