Absence

At dawn, your day begins, mind heavy with ache,
Her kind words echo on, a haunting keepsake,...

I forget just how many times
we made out
beneath our favourite tree
with no one but...

Retching screaming into the face stain pillow
Death searches amongst flayed thoughts
sins...

until the cowed chickens come home to roost!

Sunlight streaming thru window
body electric of...

The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married...

The sand sparkled like sun struck dimonds flitting to every door.
The wind danced lazily on the...

(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday...

Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while...

Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,...

Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in...

I found myself loving all the wrong people and hiding things I really wanted. I was a people pleaser, but I...

In Italy
When you order your meal it sounds like
Sophia Loren
Reading a menu with a...

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated...

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible...

I walked past them again, the family
They didn't look at me
They were busy
Busy with...

Silence,
Empty rooms and unworn shoes,

A coldness in the air,

Your whispers echo in...