Burial Grounds
Here are the featured poems from Burial Grounds. You can purchase the entire collection at Amazon.com
Death Watch at the Nursing Home
Two rows of heads puffed white for show
are turned to watch the gurney go
parade-like down the …
The Farmhouse Fire Recalled
Their vigil was roadside throughout,
as the fire fed fire, and rose
into bedrooms and closets, and …
Equanimity
Something, with being up —when cruising through the starsat 30 miles per hourabove the lesser …
The Alcoholic in November
The gnarled hands knead the air to nothingness. The eyes, locked in a downward stare—not so much in …
Grand Opening
It isn’t so much hope behind these doors
as work to do. And so the working goes
on at 4 AM. He …
Reflections at McDonald’s
The night is staring darkly in. She sweeps
between the vinyl benches, tugs at fries,
the clumps of …
Two Burial Grounds
In a churchyard near here,
markers huddle on a hill,
remembering each other
—tacitly—until
the …
Memorial Day
The bleached limestone stones are contesting
for which can be last to forgotten.
You can tell by …
Other Poems
Hall of Mirrors
‘Ah there she is’, he says, ‘Ah there she is.’
She’s come, and so an opening in space
appears, and …
A Book Showed Up the Other Day
A book showed up the other day as if
a note inside a bottle. It was not
a title I remembered, …
To a Fish Fly on my Window
How do you stay so calm – some wisdom, or
do you just take for given that the wind
knows what it …
Caught Between The Doors
He’s banged away since seven, hurling flesh
against the screen. He circles, spins, falls down
flies …
Newspapering with Charlie
You always knew he’d be there, hat askew, a street light cone fanned out from overhead, and pouring …
The Husks of Our Remembrances
Between the pages generations yearned. Inside, sometime, someone had pressed a rose, then closed the …
