BTT #8.2: Dysphoria and Rain.

Anything I have written is percolating and fermenting.  This isn't actually writer's block, but nothing has been posted in a while.  Sooo.  how about Reruns?  This was posted in May 2017 and includes a poem from 2015 and 1992, so it stretches time a bit.  The marriage spoken of in the prose is ending, we …

BTT #56: I am worried about Jessica

  I am pleased and grateful to be able to announce that I have had a posting accepted by the Blog Site "By Common Consent." Here is the link: · https://bycommonconsent.com/2019/06/18/i-am-worried-about-jessica/ · It is dedicated to,  well...  "Jessica."  May you know that God keeps you and us and knows our travails.  

BTT #51: Flint River

Flint River · I had once Watched these cold waters With the calm Precision Of one who had decided To Sink beneath them. · Another River is flowing In this bed From that day When promises filled pockets With the weight of stones · Walking now Upon a gray path On the bank, Stones just …

BTT #34: On the Corner of Catshole Lane

  On the Corner of Catshole Lane Part One:  Standing in the dampened grayness of the day, her umbrella of flattened yellow does little to impede the surrounding breaths of misted rain.  While waiting for the light to change, a question uncoils about the strangeness of the street name and ancient purpose of this place.  …

BTT #8 Dysphoria and Rain

"A Poem is a Naked Person" is the title of the sometime-acclaimed documentary film by Les Blank about musician Leon Russell.  I have not yet seen the film, but the title of it has been an evocative touchstone for me for some years.  It suggests that a poem should just sit there unadorned by ornamentation …