All night they snuggle, dreaming of outsideFur pollenates the bed, inside, outside Shake-it-off mornings, they have been waitingI stumble sleepy with the cold outside My friend calls cats stoic: I say patientThey croon for their beloved yard outside I make them wait for the light to ward offwhat might be lurking in the dark outsideContinue reading “Outside”
Tag Archives: daily life
Cafe Tanka
breaking the silencebrooding over the laptops:a loud group of friendssocializing is daringparticipating in life When I was young I remember coffee shops / coffee houses as lively places I would frequent to hear live music and hang out with my friends. We would talk and laugh, people watch and play games. Nowadays it seems likeContinue reading “Cafe Tanka”
Patience
Every night the cat comes and roosts next to me. Even if she has been attending to another member of the family, there is always the moment of her padding lightly and with purpose across the comforter like so much thick snow and settling herself, back turned, tail flicking, nonchalant and without obvious expectation unlessContinue reading “Patience”
Day by day. . . .
After spending over a year hemming and hawing, an email from Medium reminding me my membership was fixing to auto-renew finally galvanized my decision to leave there. I’m sorry to do it, because I met some wonderful people and the community atmosphere amongst the poets is – for the most part – tremendous, but atContinue reading “Day by day. . . .”
The Poetry Patio 