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My poem, Haunt is up at Call Me [ ]—(University of Alabama Creative Writing) in the Call Me [When You’re Dead] Issue. Here is the poem: Haunt I thought that youwould live forever.One procedure after another,like changingthe batteries in your … Continue reading →

My poem, Riding the Rails, is in issue 20 of the Loch Raven Review. Here is the poem: Riding the Rails Uncle Frankiewas no longer youngwhen he startedriding the rails. He was a boxer once—his face pepperedby a thousand jabs,nose … Continue reading →

My book, Seven Mountains, is featured on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily. Here is a link to the site: Here is the featured poem from the book: BEST INTENTIONS I planted that copper beech50 years ago todayfor my 30th birthday.It was … Continue reading →

My poem, Air Raid, is up at the Red Eft Review. Here is the poem: Air Raid In Brooklyn,in 1953, the air raidsirens would wailtheir warning onceor twice a week. We woulddive under our desks,assuming the half-inchoak would protect usfrom … Continue reading →

My poem, Zeus Redux, is up at the New Verse News. Here is the poem and a link to the site(with a great cartoon). Zeus Redux We do it by ionizingthe radiation and shiftingthe polarization of the earth’smagnetic core millions … Continue reading →

My poem, Poker, was just published by New World Writing. Here is the poem It is nothing to me who runs the Dive.Let’s have a look at another five.–Robert Frost in Dive’s Dive My grandma taught me.She wasn’t some namby-pambywho’d … Continue reading →

Many thanks to Clare MacQueen, editor of MacQueen’s Quinterly, for nominating my poem, Give Them All to Me, for the Best of the Net Anthology. Here is the poem: Give Them All to Me But if somehow you could pack … Continue reading →

My poem, Four Strong Winds, is up at One Art today. Here is the poem: Four strong winds swirl the gathering cloudslike vaporsfrom a witch’s cauldron. The road is out, car stuckin a forest of hemlockbordering West Virginia. And as … Continue reading →

In the current issue of PA’s Poetic Voices: INCOMPLETE By the second weekI searched for an endingwithout real hope.Ran through the usual—birth death,youth old-agemiddle-age, angst,hoping to findsomething stirringI might useto closewithout a thud. Shame.The poem is packedwith gorgeous similes—ice like … Continue reading →