Absence

Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress....

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky...

a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees
(analogous to a...

Hey Dad xxxxxx

Hey Dad,
it’s me.
Been nearly 14 years,
But the pain cuts deep...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock...

whenever I needed to append the date to a document

Though the situation infrequently arose
...

What does true love mean
it means everything to me
putting your fears to one side
...

Pain wasn’t in your future, it was in ours as we painstakingly will forever miss you.

You...

Masterpeices
are not
the easiest of
things
to stumble upon
these days...

Another year approaches, a quarter-century nears;
I seek the panacea, to allay my angst and fears...

In the hush of nightfall,
I am lulled to sleep as the stars bid me goodnight.

Under...

A Winter Without You

Beneath the twinkle of the Christmas lights,

The world feels...

alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught...

assassinated at 10:50 PM,
on December 8, 1980
forty four years later to date
outside...