Just published in Issue 7 of Livina Press. Here is the poem:

My Poem, Long Time Gone, was just published in Issue 7 of Livina Press. Here is the poem:

Long Time Gone

I always leave one lawn chair
out to overwinter
hoping for a day or two
I might bundle up

and sit in a sliver
of sunshine.
Today as I watch the blue-
black clouds

move in from the west,
I rock gently in my chair
as if putting a garden
or baby to bed

were much the same.
The snow will be heavy
today—an official end
to the gardening season.

Isn’t nature clever that way
burying the remains of the seasons
so thoroughly, we are left
only with memory and a vague hope.