Category: Book o’ Verse

  • He acts like a man with a mistress

    Cell phone calls in
    public toilets.
    Smelling funny.
    Mysteries.
    “What? What?”
    But there’s no mistress.
    No jealous second life.
    Just
    nervous habits.

  • 9:05 a.m.

    There’s a campfire
    in Carol’s coffee cup.
    Smoke signals.
    S.O.S.
    “Get me.
    Out of.
    Here.”

  • Strategy

    She liked to
    look the
    other way
    when she opened
    bathroom doors
    because
    you never know.

  • Soul

    Soul is not space,
    not molecules.
    You can fit all the world’s souls
    in the crack
    of your ass.
    However,
    just because you can
    doesn’t mean you should.

  • Long gone

    Today my son
    is the Black Fox
    in a one-kid revival
    of the ’50s classic, The Court Jester
    as he stands around the kitchen shouting:
    “Hawkins, get out of my clothes.”
    “Hawkins, get out of my clothes!”
    He wants to play with Danny Kaye
    but Danny Kaye is long gone.

  • She’s Quite Old

    That Victorian isn’t old. That car
    isn’t old. My Sinatra records aren’t
    old. Not that old. Not really.
    Even that old tree isn’t old.
    That old woman
    who just walked past
    like she just stepped out
    of Deuteronomy
    with a flock of goats trailing behind
    and a thin little stick
    and a plan
    to get them all
    to water by nightfall.
    That old woman is old.

  • All-American Me

    I’m wearing big pants today
    big comfy pants
    size none of your damn business pants
    so big, so comfy
    makes me want to have a piece of cake
    a piece of chocolate cheese cake
    stretch these big pants out.

  • Somedays

    Somedays
    he looks at me
    like I’m sleeping
    with his wife.
    And I’m sure.
    I’m almost sure.
    That I’m not.

  • Summer

    Checking in to find them
    lying side by side
    in the dark
    like sisters
    comparing notes
    on what had been
    the best part of the day.

  • By the window

    There's a man there
    by the window.
    And he's speaking
    with such precision
    you can see the letters spit forth into air
    shiny newborne
    serifs spinning.
    And his words are just hanging out there
    piling up there
    in a loose stack
    by the window
    free dialog for the taking.
    I'll pass.