Poetry

My first psychologist had a poster: Second Place is the First Loser, above a fern made of fabric.

The time I spilled my whole bottle of Xanax on the floor of a Jersey Transit Train ...

You ask me what I thought then. I thought what I think still--to keep custody of my eyes and lips.

Plenty of dented signs on the highway. Igloo photograhs in the drawer on the left.

Some people love the smell of gasoline. His anger made him utter endless obsenities.

The fog again - it hangs late this year, whitening the air the way snow whitens the ground.

The first flurries are falling, falling slowly. In the dark of morning, I reached into my shadow closet ...

Sitting at the end of a lakeside dock, with solid cedar boards below my chair but ever-flowing water underneath ...

Sometimes I make the mistake of being too corporeal-minded forgetting we are predominately made of light ...