Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

My editor and friend from way back wrote this.

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George–brilliant as usual.

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muse-ridden

Forgetting to tie my shoes or cook breakfast, like an idiot savant crunching numbers between his teeth, savoring their sweet-saltiness and solving problems faster than calculator memory, or the five-year-old that bows deep, bowing and plucking violin strings with more skill than the … Continue reading

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rather like gilgamesh

Rather like Gilgamesh I need a man not yet made a stone brother to match strength to strength so I remember (after the earth quiets from our meeting) something of gentleness

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Last minute

Tonight I take the last bag of candy from the pharmacy shelf colored red and pink and wrapped separately so my son can sign his name with his novice four letters 24 times because that’s me, always on the cusp … Continue reading

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germ(i)nation

It’s time to start the nightshades not the brilliant berries red and deadly as any poison apple but their cousins– peppers, tomatoes, ground cherries seeds on my table lifted on a toothpick planted the depth of one breath mist-watered small … Continue reading

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