Creative Writing
“All of Us,” a 74-line poem about becoming a couple after the first wife dies, won an Honorable Mention in the Oregon Poetry’s Association Spring 2015 contest. Watershed Review “Dating a Dutch Scientist” and “Gold in the Mouth” in its December 2014 issue. Several of these poems appear in Saturday Afternoons, published March 2009. My photograph, “Laundry, San Felipe,” shot in Mexico’s Yucatan, is on the book’s cover. The Harney County poems come from my spring stint as the 2009 Eastern Oregon Writer-in-Residence.
Desire
To desire the desire of the desired,
gut turned upside down,
the mind, a whirligig,
on a carnival ride, Read More
Weathering
When we grow old together
we tell each other the same stories
one hundred times over, and eyes roll.
We forgive our parents, mostly. Read More
The Subject of My Hair
My hair drifted downward,
longer each year,
my own private power,
swinging loose and free. Read More
Neighborhood Boys
The boy around the corner
skips when he walks his dog.
I say, You’re on the run, Jack,
but Jack says it’s Maggie Read More
Blind Man and the Queen
Might the massage guy
frown at her feet—
those calluses and corns?
Scorn bouquets of veins Read More