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A builder, building dreams in the form of bricks and cement
Helping families have warmth and a...

They talked all at once to me,
I shook my head yes,turned and shook my head no,
I said yes to...

It was a few days after the 9/11 attack (2001),
when I ran into my Queens NY neighbors,
Jill...

(circa 2016)

My wife’s first language is Tagalog.
English is the second language...

Words burst out like wayward bullets,
wounding confidence,
piercing innocent souls...
...

Had that drink
smoked that pipe
popped that pill
sought refuge
between strange...

When will I go to Heaven?

When God calls you home...

Will God call me on the telephone?...

I once had a conversation,
With a very dear friend of mine.
And I asked her if wounds heal,...

She hasn’t yet arrived
And already speaks of leaving.
All I could do was
To just sit...

I am sorry i am not like you mommy
I am sorry that i cant adore your concepts about life
I am...

Table, chairs two
whiskey, cigarette glow
the Devil and I
time we had a sitdown....

Following her footsteps
I gently collect each footprint
Tuck them in between leaves
...

If we could visit, just sit, and talk...

What is it we should know?

Would you love more?...

this is in the same vein as the others
cliched storytelling dressed as a poem
but I've always...

we've had a few conversations you and I different crossroads found us at the same table
it's been a...

Out of the night fell the clutch of circumstance
I found I was face to face with angels
If...

Santa..." OI you , Are you stalking me ya knob !
Or are you just on the bloody rob ?
Stealing...