Poems

A Cowboy’s ReflectionOn a Christmas Come Too Soon

Time with you, my darling, seems seamless. Tomorrow and yesterday and today are all the same. And all wonderful. But […]

Hymns of a Would-Be LoverPart One – First Love

I always knew that someday I would be a lover. I could feel it, beating in my blood, throbbing in […]

Exile in Snow

In fields of quilted snow, I see two birds exiled from worlds of warmth, ruffling white feathers in white fields […]

Perfection in Eden

Sleep, my child, and let the worries of the world pass you by, for the world starts anew each morning […]

On Coming of Age

I have grown this summer, somber, into the suits of death. Tailors have chalked my lengthening sleeves as deposition for […]

Wilson Mills Reverie

I have fought my independence in your soul’s marshes, played Sumter and Marion in the fields and pastures of your […]

The Edge of Silence

Country cold night rain grinds lonely streets into obsidian gems, polishing away time and flaws. Tarred roads and tar babies […]

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