What Do You Think A Good Piece of Music Looks Like?

by | Dec 3, 2023 | Poems, Poetry

What Do You Think A Good Piece of Music Looks Like? What a lovely question! Thanks for asking, butI guess I don’t really know. A good piece of musicmight look like a landscape, or a lover’s body, or a still life of a grandmother’s windowsill.It might look like a river...

Gunshots Don’t Ring Out

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Poems, Poetry

Gunshots Don’t Ring Out Gunshots don’t ring out.Don’t say they do.Gunshots blast and tear.They rip the fabric of the air.They shock the ear.Not a bell’s toll – that comes after -but a whip snap,a stinging, piercing thunderclap. No, gunshots don’t ring out.Don’t...

Carpenter Ant Hatch, Spring 1991

by | Jun 16, 2022 | Poems, Poetry

Carpenter Ant Hatch, Spring 1991 Once the decision is taken, it isn’t hard to kill them. I watch one clutch the body of another in its pincers, carrying it toward home. But I don’t let it escape. Yesterday, one of the huge flying males bit me savagely on the...

Lessons in the Cards

by | Apr 21, 2022 | Poems, Poetry

Lessons in the Cards While my father was teaching me the cold calculus of chance, the shuffling dance of probability in the mathematics of poker,I was learning the symbols of love and wealth,of war and death, discovering myself in the joker and the...