Marathon

a poem about battling with yourself

Elegy

For J.

How quickly
death interrupts
the narrative,
the story arc,
the trajectory
taken for granted.

Conviction

A Poem

have you ever felt it?

Catalog #67

A tattered coat upon a stick…

He is hanging onto nothing today.
It is so hard to grasp.
So easy to fall from…

Oso Comes Home

Oso was just six pounds when we found him huddled next to a cattle crossing sign…

something’s changed

a month ago
i never could have believed
that such a thing could happen
not for me
never
for me

Beginning Again To Begin

Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.

Stardust in the Antarctic snow

“We are stardust, we are golden / We are caught in the devil’s…

Full Stop Feline

When you begin
to write poems
about your cat,

Pile of bones

A Poem

Why do I have this appetite?
This hunger,
this desire
for more.
To taste other waters
with the same…