Poetry in the Moment

electric gate Your Kind of Community in glowing white letters picket fences a white man shadows the black teen thud of footsteps one bark an...

written on New Year's Sunday Mala beads carved into skull shapes dream of the last night the glow  of a good-luck crystal  first sunrise...

false negative an infectious silence darkens the office false positive a kiss-marked post-it note on the humming fridge Failed Haiku, 6:61, ...

Christmas Eve alone I watch a replay  of the debate a deflated Santa on the White House lawn  theft and fraud charges PoemHunter, December 2...

smell of sunshine birdsongs fill empty tree-lined streets flatten the curve ... I take a close look at my belly rooftop workout I elbow-bump...

New Life in Trumpland, A Senryu Sequence Go Trump graffiti a stray dog marking his spot trumping Trump my Mexican parrot lifts up its voic...

Revised Seventh Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary: "Laughing" in the Face of Adversity just like the flu ... all eyes on the la...

the smell of our routine silence dinner time it begins and ends with slamming the door: divorced talk divorced ... bed sheets no lo...

laid off the autumn gust changes its direction unemployed all these shapes of winter clouds job hunting I step on the spring sun i...

white house briefing a mouth that opens and closes white house guards living from one fake news to another Prune Juice, July 2018

a senryu sequence written for Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un first peace talks crows on the power line answering crows peace talks halted a ra...

fall equinox living together yet apart that same look on her Tudor face trial separation winter sky heavy with rain clouds divorce...

warm beer on a sultry night his talk of love just divorced his whiskey glass brimming with winter stars Failed Haiku, 2:22, October ...

ten to eight I hop from one job to another couch surfing my circle of friends grows smaller wingsuit flying my dream world becomes ...

The political is personal and the personal is sexual -- David Wilkinson my liberal wife on top of me year in, year out I stick to the...

for Trumplanders on the hospital road sign Trump hat icon therapy session: the patient trumping Trump Failed Haiku, 2:15, March 20...

A Senryu Sequence Go Trump graffiti a stray dog marking his spot trumping Trump my Mexican parrot lifts up its voice election nigh...