2 days ago2 minlent and the far away god every year lent rolls around and we hear the same old jargon. its a time to get closer to god. no one ever asks the question: how far is ...
2 days ago2 minthe end of a draftit's done. finally. I finished my draft for Free Dom! I looked at the document creation date and it reads July 4th, 2019. I'm not sure if...
Feb 173 mingratefulim watching the sun shine off the leftover settled snow from the recent storm and I feel grateful. I've only been in Ohio about eight mon...
Feb 161 minsnow day, a poemthe rooftops remind me of powdered donuts and the ground is blanketed in a white slate which brought me back here to you (and of course, ...
Feb 153 minsince we last met it's been some time since I've written here. I suppose it's a combination of reasons: - the toddler in my life - the move across the coun...
Nov 27, 20191 minwoe unto me, a poem"O, woe is me T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" - Shakespeare (Hamlet) The Chinese treat the common cold with Ma Huang, a pl...
Nov 27, 20191 minmonster, a poemthe birds are chirping outside my car window but other than that, the silence is like a blanket over me. I embrace it, thinking of the ba...
Nov 27, 20191 minbehind green eyes, a poemhis eyes pierce me like two additional claws he's grown through evolution and survival of the fittest in this house with the two addition...
Nov 18, 20191 minXFRM BOY, a poem his Mercedes' license plate read: "XFRM BOY" so I pictured him as a strapping young man with overalls stretched across an autumn orange a...
Nov 18, 20193 minIt is Finished! (Reintegration Update #3)It is finally done! Well, sort of. I have finished writing Reintegration! Finally, after years. After starting and scrapping seventeen ch...
Nov 18, 20191 minfireside, a poem in the cool draft of a November Sunday the fireplace called my name. maybe it was the poems I had just finished reading, the frigid, what...
Nov 18, 20194 minA Week with CashWhen I originally thought about taking one of my last two weeks of parental leave, I envisioned a full seven days of complete relaxation....
Nov 2, 20192 minPlease Stay Asleep (Reintegration Update #2)I haven’t done an update on my novel in some time. Since the last post about Reintegration we have been doing our best to take care of a ...
Oct 28, 20194 minOn the Dissection of Kanye West Breathe in. Do you smell that? That odor in the air. It’s a rotten, disturbing scent floating around in the culture. It reminds me of sev...
Oct 21, 20194 minTom King's Pen, a Gavel and a Sanctuary Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man with superpowers, a closet full of skeletons, a chest constricted by anxieties...
Sep 11, 20191 minsan gabriel, a poemThe streets are avenues of eyeballs, dips, dives and detours divert my path, a Ford Focus halfway out the driveway in front of me, the ga...
Sep 10, 20191 mina whole lot of, a poemyour mother is concerned as to why the torrent of poems written about you have halted. she asked if I still love my family, leading me dow...
Sep 10, 20191 minthe balloon, a poemthe mylar balloon was tied to power lines, bobbing up and down like a buoy playing with the tension of a metaphor in a poem and a potenti...
Sep 10, 20191 mina good morning, a poemit was a good morning dishes with smeared ketchup residue and pans united with fried egg piled up in the sink flakes of sesame sunflower ...