


A-Maize-Ing
Corn is a-maize-ing,entrancing as a labyrinth with no exit,like a diet of high-fructose syrupthat gets recipes stirred-upto melt your heartwith so much sugarthat you can eat and eat and eatand […]

Passion and a Poesy
What is a poem but a loose string of wordshastily configured and rearranged for our pleasure,a steamy, intense, passionatecrossing of Knight and Dame in the waking hoursof the day, when […]

Games with the Sun
Stratus and nimbus clouds,these are the peskiest water-wispsin Mother Nature’s eye. They play games. They joke around.They quiver like tiny dancers.They hover the land’s cuspsas fluffy little ice cubesthat even […]

The Journey
It's Mental Health Awareness Month. Here's a poem about the value of human life, written many years ago when I was in a very dark place. The goal of this work is to discourage suicide and address clinical depression.

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
This poem is an excerpt from my book, "Wild Writers: The Animal World's Greatest Poets".

Heartburn
Another poem inspired by Charles Bukowski.

What’s Up, Doc?
I hope parodying Looney Tunes is alright. Thank you, Bugs Bunny!

An Autumn in Sitka
A poem about the changing of seasons.

Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark was a famous shipas fast as a mako sharkon the high seas,that broke transportation recordsbefore aircraft existed,when success was definedby the length of timeit took a boatto […]