Category: Essays

• Alligator Kisses

  Alligator kisseson the rivers of my minddo hold those castled soulsThey wind and wend and wanderGreened and darkenedHarkened unto blacknessTo shake & break & fake it manThose alligator kisses can.Alligatior kissesand crocodile tearsbring years of beers in old TangiersBut that was yesterdayAnd oil stained charmersMilked skin farmersGive life a changeBaby’s hawling, caterwaulingGive life some zip,…
• Adiosa

  One sometimes knows whenYou are nearFor then I hearYou callingEach note the sweetest joy to methe sound in each leaf falling.Such sound bears witnessTo your breathe.It calls me to your armAnd so I step out merrilyInto your tender charm
• Adam, Adam Meet Your Madam

  Adam, Adam meet your Madamflying through the nightPoor Adam took a look at madamAnd nearly died of frightdark demonic not platonicNothing seemed to pleaseOne minute this one minute thatShe really was a teaseTwirling, whirling, ever swirlingAlways this and that:tall and thin with pointed chinand yet sometimes quite fat.Who was this MadameBequeathed to AdamAnd then again…
• A Man

  A manAn ordinary manA man of life and lustof giving, living, willingnessA fun-filled manwho smilesAnd wiles his way into the heartAn ordinary manof depth and truth and beauty in & outA man to lovewho knows what love is all aboutthis ordinary man
• Enid

  Enid was a good girl. Everyone in town said so. Mrs. Jenkins at the post office would be the first to tell you how kind Enid was to all the old folk. And what Mrs.Jenkins knew, everybody knew. At least until last Sunday. The church picnic went as planned and Enid’s Sunday chicken was as…
• Sara

  Sara was a disturbing girl. Just when he thought he’d quite got rid of thoughts of her, as if by magic she would quite suddenly appear and put askew his too well ordered day. Love once a consideration, no longer reasonable. She bothered him. On a bicycle, riding out the sunlight basking in the goodness…