Anxiety is the bluebird/through air rippling sounds/of all flags in my ear,/finding my shoulder// A voice from

The sky walks into a bar./ The sky?/ What sky?/ The sky walks into a bar?/ No, this guy. T-h-i-s

Nothing matched the pain/ in my neighbor’s eyes/ when he told me/ his grandson died suddenly:/ “Of an

Render unto Caesar, sayeth the taxman,/ his face like a final demand,/ his face like a stormy Monday

Our daughter Jasmine grew troublesome that year. She complained about school, talked about boys, and

I carry your dolichocephalic face in/ a woolpack of memory. Your eyes/ laden with guilt or some such

I admit to having issues with my appearance/ I have compared my body to a sack of potatoes/ Even though I

For much of Cindy’s life, people she encountered in the medical world had one attribute in common:

On the edge of the witches’ well in the garden,/ angels breathe their summer spell in the garden.// A child’s

Those first creepy foreshadowings/ will occur before you reach the lodge/ or campsite or lake: little

Camouflage desires and wishes run your life/ You don’t know why the sun shines. How important is the sun

I’m sitting atop a mountain/ falling rock below me/ tipsy mountainous rock above/ I sit in my car/ penning

No way was she going to miss it this time! For five years, she had been so close to going to the fair, but

On the muddy green Illinois River my mind/ sinks down while a water bottle bobs up.// My anxious heart

-Yesterday-// We found it in the garage,/ on a grease-stained shelf,/ tap-tap-tapped it into place,/ raised

It seems like we are laughing one minute/ then I look up & see that her eyes look bruised/ though I can’t

Stay, continue/ Weary or smart/ Change pocket/ Lint for Art/ Smudged faces/ For clarity/ In the wishing

Uncertainty rules/ like never before,/ the new normal/ is the abnormal,/ the unheard-of state/ of affairs is

The tune touched/ every cell of my body,/ flowed through my veins;/ a song I played/ amid my sleepless

At a time when wanderlust/ Has taken over every one/ There are the few who/ Do not, can not, will not