Poetry in the Moment

hollow-eyed men huddled outside the shelter window hollow-eyed men waiting NeverEnding Story, December 8 2025 FYI: This could be read as a p...

shelter window view this two by two freedom of an azure sky Trash Panda, 9, 2025

gathering shadows ten more people ticketed for sleeping rough Cold Moon Journal, April 10 2024

this winter colder than last at twilight a homeless man's shadow slips into the church Gusts, 38, Fall/Winter 2023

deep winter the shelter's entrance  darkens The Pan Haiku Review , 2, winter 2023

Happy Christmas the gap-toothed grin of a homeless man Enchanted Garden, 5, 2023 Romanian Translation by Editor Steliana Cristina Voicu Crac...

r eading between the lives and writing between the lines , LXIX the voice of God commands me to go on a hunger strike ... on the edge of his...

outside the shelter the howl of the north wind -- a teen of few words wolfs down one plateful after another ... NeverEnding Story, March 2 2...

an unlucky man or a threat to public safety the reporter asks ... a Black shot dead hours later after pacing around a store frostbite amputa...

screams mixed with the sound of a blood-stained bottle of wine swept across asphalt ... a man stabbed to death in swarming by eight teenage ...

  we'reallinthistogether             snow               on             snow    onhomelessshelter Bulgarian and English Tanka Handbook (e...

one by one  tent cities dismantled  amidst drifting snow the mayor wears a smile for the camera will my bed  be far enough away from my neig...

No More Fairy Tales , IV written in response to  [the "most powerful] Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin" 's critique of President   ...

street camping beside one stray ... then many Plum Tree Tavern, August 28 2022

a stray dog's stare in the high-rise shadow a street kid tsuri-dōrō ,10 , July/August 2022

Three Hundred and Third Entry,  Coronavirus Poetry Diary                  omicron          surge          snow            on          snow  ...

reading between the lives and writing between the lines ,  VI the Pope doubles down  on quashing the old Latin Mass...  outside the church  ...

snowonsnow ... a teenager brings some into the shelter tsuri-dōrō ,6, Nov/Dec 2021 

news after news of record-shattering heat day after day a homeless man evicted into the mayor's silence Haiku Canada Review, October, 20...

Two Hundred and Ninetieth Entry,  Coronavirus Poetry Diary written in  response to  CNBC's breaking news, Nov. 26 : WHO calls special me...