Sometimes I still see her out there,waist-deep in water, alone and waiting;one bright afternoon long ago.She is looking up at me on the old tire swingas I soar out high overhead,hands cupped around her eyes,wet hair glistening in the summer sun. “Don’t look down. Just close your eyes and let go!” I do as sheContinue reading “Don’t Look Down”
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I Miss
I miss the days when I didn’t miss things so much.My father’s voice in the next room.My mother’s cool hand on my forehead.My first solo drive in my first shitty car. The record store on the corner.The bookshop downtown.The few true friends I knew in high school.The snake bite of first love that followed.Days whenContinue reading “I Miss”
Homage
One bright day I stood aloneon a school playgroundtwisting blades of grassin my child-sized fingers.Then suddenly, a hot jolt of pain.Yellowjacket strike!Soon my finger swelled to twice its size.Then it was my eye.Later, I overheard someone say“You know, he could’ve died!”But I was rushed to the hospitalin that old green truckdriven by the red-faced teacherContinue reading “Homage”
Some Distant Dream
I walked there oncein some distant dream,or was it a childhood reality?That trampled paththrough a fragrant fieldtousled by the winds of summer,sunlight on my faceas warm as a memoryof simpler timesthat perhaps never were.
Haunted Avenues 