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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 →

I have two poems in Pennsylvania’s Poetic Voices. Here they are, formatted correctly this time. IN THERE SOMEWHERE Truth be told, we bought the housebecause the gardenenchanted us. It stretched for 50 yards—taking a gentleslope down to a creek that … Continue reading →

I have two poems in the current issue of Pennsylvania’s Poetic Voices. Here are the poems: IN THERE SOMEWHERE Truth be told, we bought the house because the garden enchanted us. It stretched for 50 yards— taking a gentle slope … Continue reading →

Here is my third poem from the current issue of the New English Review: Seven Mountains At the top of this hillis the cabin we sharedwhen so youngand unworldly we thought that springwould last forever.It was beautiful here.How could we … Continue reading →

I have three poems in the June issue of the New English Review. Here is the second poem: Roaches Dad said the tenement shudderedwhen the furnace finallyflamed out.–It was 1 A.M on a FebruarySaturday, and by sunrisethere was no way … Continue reading →

I have three poems in the current issue of New English Review. Here is the first of the poems: Praying Mantis We always celebrated Easterwith a bucket of KFC,coleslaw, and biscuitsat the picnic tablein that little parkby the school.–No bonnets, … Continue reading →

I’ve two poems in the current issue of Misfit Magazine. Here are the poems: Best Intentions I planted that copper beech50 years ago todayfor my 30th birthday.It was little more than a stick, barely survivingits first three years,although I wateredand … Continue reading →