Candy brought tequila;

1_Mad_Mom brought rum;

CK Dexter Haven said she

Wouldn’t even come

Unless someone brought some vino

And a sparkly party hat.

Lorraine said she was busy

Unless someone fed her cat

And she really wished that… Read full post »

Hello, Jerry: just

called to let you know

that my love will

not make your nine

o’clock this morning; she

will be staying in bed

with me, and we

will be snoozing around,

naked bodies pressed together

in half-awake lovers bliss,… Read full post »

Let us be lovers:

We’ll marry our fortunes together.

-       Paul Simon

An old Subaru wagon (not pretty

but plows through two feet of snow);

some socks and t-shirts with holes;

blue jeans also with holes and

a scratched-up guitar (one hole);… Read full post »

We've laughed and cried and had our fun:

I wrote a story, and now it's done.

Today, I deleted every post,

But shuffled through them like a ghost

And saved your comments, every one. 

I thank you all. My story's done.  Read full post »

Yesterday, I posted the last installment of my blog-novel, So It Was Cancer: A Love Story. I'm not here to debate its merits. Those, ultimately, are for someone else to judge.

Now that I'm finished, though, I want to reflect a bit on the form. Does the blog-novel have a place in contemporar… Read full post »

The sky was filled with shooting stars I

thought were fireflies and you

did not see; we sat in the grass

and talked about everything else, while

just above our heads, millions of miles

away, celestial sparks flew,

and the photons of a… Read full post »

Pull up a booth, and let’s tell each other

tales of the road: the places we’ve stopped

and the faces we’ve seen and the people

we’ve lost along the way. I want to hear

what cracked your windshield and what

the radio played when… Read full post »

I would have a permanent tattoo in

tattoo blue, one that sun and soap

could not fade nor the passing of years

the sentiment diminish; a dark bird

on my wrist or spider on my ankle,

or a tiny heart-shaped box to remind me… Read full post »