Published Poems, Press, and Practice Poems.
Poems on this page often move between draft and published. You’ll see a book cover when a poem is published and part of a print collection. When poems are removed, they go to my workshop with other draft poems to be posted on this site later, or it is in the workshop to be published in my next collection. Posting poems on this site helps me view them in a new light. Generally, poems move through significant revision (though folks who write poetry often never tell you as such) to reach their potential. In a way, it’s like a different music set list for my inspirational occasions.
Little Blue Door
There you go again out the front door.
The one you once called your own.
The little blue door on a little winding road
that welcomed you home. Until this morning,
Only You Can Say
You said the word “no” for the first time today.
You turned down one more sip of milk.
A sentiment you shared without words before in so many wordless ways—
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On the River We Float II
The river we float has a pace
beyond the town’s prepared embrace,
as our untempered souls regale in
the submerged acknowledgments as life
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Open Doors and Windows
I hear music in the mountains.
I recognize the grip of gravel.
Music
To enchantingly ease and soothe regrets
From the highest past joys lost”
Memories to Forget
Cataloged
Bookshelves
Decks, Porches, and Pavilions
Pets
Garden Flowers
Rain Gauges
Clothing Lines
Dinner Table
Fire
Cutting Boards
Stories of Home
Small Town
Mast Years
