ESCAPE ARTIST The sea surrounds me, Deep, dark, and cold, So black. Blending into the starless sky. I drift in silence, alone and calm, After the scrape of keel on stone. Then suddenly A piteous plea, A sound from someone…
THE GAME On low-lying ground, the children started a game With the vaguest of rules but a very clear aim. The object was simply to find the way home, So, with a bagful of clues, they set off to roam.…
MERLE TURNIPSEED Old man Merle Turnipseed Lived on a farm infested with stinkweed. All of his neighbors heartily agreed Merle Turnipseed was strange indeed. His teeth were green, And his teeth were few, His breath smelled like monkeys From eating…
INTO DARKNESS At Monday morning Mass a man sits alone, A man nearby and a million miles away. Eyes vacant, head bent, forehead on his fist. He looks at his feet At the Sign of Peace. I think to ask…
I am there but not there. Of what’s become of me I‘m barely aware. There is no clear context For what happened before Or what will happen next. When someone speaks to me, I hear every other word, Then simply…