Love the Second Time Around…When You’ve Got Adult Kids

Must I really apologize for loving my kids?

I Can’t Compete

I knew my marriage was over as soon as I saw how she was drooling over you. She would stare at you with a lover’s gaze, the way Lady Gaga fell into a trance with Bradley Cooper during their duet at the Oscars. Perhaps our marriage had been finished for quite a while by the time she discovered you.

I Dated a Nice Guy Once

A Poem

Cheering her up

What do you do when your long distance partner is in despair, hundreds of kilometers…

craving for you

thirsty for heat & for
a naked woman, lonely
i am a wounded beast
with a dark heart of fire
fire on rubbed raw flesh
raw &…

the stitches I’ve sewn have ripped

I cried realizing I’d compartmentalized my parts / giving my puzzle…

Hearts on Fire

She looks in his direction and smiles
She raises her eyebrows ever so slightly
Indiscernible to the casual onlooker
But he sees
He…

Coda

It is the eyes
I realise
when looking
as I do
when searching
(as I want not to but need)
for something that says
yes?
perhaps inflected as a…