sweat & steel
as one who has toiled in the fields borne of sweat and steel and labored beneath a yellowing sun under which all...
dying embers
a cold drizzle sheets bare branches hung like copper wire and devoid of crows. three straight days of rain have transformed my...
starry night
beneath a tear-stained sky the night cracked open wide a million specks of light can’t dispel wandering thoughts and adolescent dreams for...
open suitcase
it’s too easy to leave one who’s already lost… but when love’s the rage and nothing else matters and days melt into...
a late october night
beneath yellow streetlamps damp oak leaves glisten stuck on pavement like confetti. summer parties long over we walk in elemental silence where...
bittersweet and blue
without a single word your clear brown eyes reach out across this distance and cut me to the bone and lay my...
for all the life
we see what we want to see at a traffic light or by the beach or cruising eighty miles an hour down...
searching for sugar man
an inner city poet with barely enough to eat eyes fixed on the ground in the city which he keeps no places...