Not So Pedestrian Gadfly under Guise of Country Bumpkin

Now

Look here
You-all

Certified highfalutin'
City-bred dandies,

It's sho 'nuf

High nigh
Impossible, so

Why in tarnation youse tryin'
To outrun a horse-

Fly.

(First published in First Intensity #21, Fall 2006)

War of Attrition

Looking back
they saw

what wore them
down was not

their in-
constancy,

their constant
frictions,

but how to love,
honor and obey

a life made up
of fictions.

(First published in Kater Murr's Press, 2005)

Wrath

Unknowingly

Crushed, almost
Suffocated

By my wife's pillow,
The badly

Bruised innocent
Centipede surfaces

And retaliates

And stings her fore-
Head good. She

Springs from deep sleep, strikes back
Blindly this time sees

She finishes the job off
Good.

(First published in Poetry Salzburg Review #14, Autumn 2008)

The Weight

Forgive me

Love, for taking
You for granted,

For thinking

You were simply
A given: Above all,

Once and for all,
Thank you

For leaving me
Your presence

In all ways
Unjustly forgiving.

(First published in Poetry Salzburg Review #9, Spring 2006)

Adolescent

easily

taking a-
part

the resilient

soft
red
rubber
ball

to where

he finds
its hard

perplexing
core.


(First published in Poetry Salzburg Review #2, Winter 2001/2002)