Category: Fallow Ground

farm boys fightto be counter-productive.they wreck stuff a wealth of chores splitbefore and after...

Day before the stay-at-homeorder goes into effect,I lace my ears, muzzle my mouthin gauze. Each...

When flowers die,They die slowly—Edge by edgeThe petals curl,Still, silently,Without complaint....

Under the muted moonlight,I,Dance with the dead,Loved ones,Left at the crossroads.Sing with...

As a child and young adultmy dreams were sometimes torturedby beings who thirsted formy powerless...

Loneliness is a wormgnawing at my gut,so I cling to boyswho don’t care(flowers promised but never...

They say on nights so very still,Sabine will come – oh, yes, she will.Holding babe to bony...

Behold! Spoiled girls who moan from sunriseto conniption in their daffodil socks andpickled...

“New Prospects for Growing Human Replacement Organs in Animals.” I kiss the stars like...

After it happenedI planted myselfBurrowed deep into the groundA cold, silent slumberBut nestled in...

When we are young,we cry easily– when we fall– when we cut ourselvesand– when we...

Search for meIn the woodsWhere the magpie singsHis song of sorrows.Find me underneathThe Juniper...

There is a line beyond those woodsinvisible yes undeniable yetits quest is everlasting and must...

Limited time offerLifeAnd the subsequent malaise that death bringsIf you’re inconsequential in...

I slowly calm,catching my breathspent and euphorictotally satiated.So deeply in loveI must hold...

Reality forsakenFor a chance at the golden ringAnd though it’s only made of brassA chance to grab...

Cold crusts barren branches;the mind of winter comes.What I have known recedes,as trees surrender...

One day in July,I bent to pull weedsin the garden, to lifta large stone; I bentat the waist and...

My problem with school isthat I can’t go back thereand point out to that teacherjust how wrong she...

A hangdog coyote crosses the road and lopes off into the scrub. You can feel his wretchedness....

Across the street a little girl is playing ball with(what I assume to be) her brother.He...

When the pain resonates in the deep clanks of thebig pendulumstanding alone in the heart of that...

The clutching bonesmakes the rattling soundand that grim reaper makes hiseerie presencefelt...

The rabbits took a lickin last night.The Magpies are doing their best to clean up the mess,But the...

Fallow shadows follow a fiasco of woeYears of tears adhere to mirror a soulSilent screams seed the...

Better to understand a riverBy understanding how I understand a riverI must step back from the...

The solid earth has never yet complained.There is only the slight scrapeOf the accommodating...

I was a paper carrierand used to hear her speakwhen I rang to collect from herevery other week....

He was a good good little boyFrom break of dawn till time for bed: His father’s pride, his...

In the days before washing machines,Mother kept our clothes scrubbedwash-board clean, hung up on a...

If I could swimThe poolOf tearsThat our sunLet out to dryOr hear a windThru her…sailDeep intoThe...

What is this dark dream that is cast in gloom?What ominous, baneful face floats in air,Carrying...

Suddenly, he appeared from my ceiling,The turbaned Arab smoking a hookah,Sitting on his own cloud...

This is how it always feels.I have been here before.The door is still closedTime elapses in...

I wait for you, my darling sky.I wait for you to pull out your palette,inviting the world to stop...