I covet the single-mindedness of animals. Bears like Mink aren’t alone in their mysterious ability to orient themselves homeward from unfamiliar faraway places. On spring…
Several years ago I was taking a walk on a dark winter’s evening and hit upon the idea to write about the assassinations, mainly those…
Granite State’s odyssey began in a library in Massachusetts where I had just finished reading Mark Irwin’s poem “The Human Pageant” (The Massachusetts Review). I…
I like poems about food, and I like poems about movies. I also think poets should write about their favorite things, and two of my…
Early middle age seems pathetic until you’re there, so now that I’m there, I couldn’t help but reassess Weiland through that lens. At the time,…
“My hometown of York, Pennsylvania is no exception to the crisis of drug overdose deaths. A dear friend, who stayed in my hometown while I…
“All Over Again” was written about three months after my father passed. I was visiting a friend in Mississippi on a property that contained an…
The earliest version of “Deliverance as Anchor” was written on 12/28/18, when I was attempting a poem every day after joining a group of writers…
Who is the betrayer? Who abandoned whom? Who no longer recognizes whom? Over the years, these questions have surfaced again and again in my writing…
I’m thinking of how images outlast images. I was in a room; a man beside me was sketching birds. I pretended to be looking at…