Poems

Hodgkin’s’ Hole There is a hole in the sky Shining a dim light on Lampasas And the old Oxbow Steakhouse Hodgekins worked At the store next door For twenty infertile years Till his ponytail turned gray While standing on the steps On his smoke break He watched a large crow Lifted by the breeze, settle […]

Seat of the soul (For Olivia) The soul’s seat Is no soft perch It is precarious Like a sparrow’s nest In a wind storm The bits of branch And string are sent Unraveled and crossed Scattered and spread Across water, sky and ground The soul is so easily released Blown like a bit of dander […]

Calvert, Texas You can get a good cup Of coffee At the brush break cafe When looking out the window Across main street You can see where that first passenger got off Glass eyed burning With yellow fever In eighteen seventy two. Bringing a wrath A biblical colossus Of vengeful caprice Deserved or not They […]

“At what point does the light leave the eyes…?” Is it flowing from follicles out of Eustachian tubes Down the steep back roads at the nape of the neck? Does light leave screaming and laughing? Is it projected in to the air To the amazed Who, dazed, didn’t get the joke Didn’t tell a joke, […]