I have three poems in the current issue of The Write Launch. Here is the first:

A Turn Around Town

I take the cobbled path through town
that I have walked for years.
The streets are for the wary—
ice strewn here and there
as if they had tired
of the nagging shovels.
The air still
with the silence of February.

I have lived here so many years
you’d think I’d have
a story to share
for every building, every empty lot,
but the town and I have changed,
and like most my age,
I mourn
the way it was.

I scan the scurrying passersby
between hat
and scarf, searching
for a familiar face,
but so many of those
I once knew are gone.
Fingertips and toes growing numb,
I turn and head for home.