112: there is no one thing

the tears keep springing to my eyes like a soft rain they are all of a sudden there noticed I search my soul through my head and heart throat and gut but nothing says this is why this is reason so I can take it in hand and remold it to something comfortable light the...

111: they want me

not like sally fields award reception but nearly they call just after first a text message please come it implies couched in details of the location and who will be there and what duration the trip will entail how can I say no even though it is so soon too distant...

110: sideways

poetry is afteall talking sideways to the ears that could otherwise not hear a word they have to say sending signals like smoke to the visions long blurred by convention wisdom says listen so poets speak in tongues and smoke signals greatly hoping the message is felt...

109: better

what is better anyway because really are we not all just in motion set before us before we began we keep on as if because that is what we have yet the bees butterflies even pesty senseless yellowjackets work their short term existences to build for the next to...

108: was it after THE WAR

that we lost our sense of building so that the next generation would go on to have and to hold or perhaps it began before trickled in a small crack we did not see until all too unmistakably there was no finger strong enough to plug the dike that flooded society and...