KNEELING


 

A city’s chore

In phantom rest

Recline at last

In parody

We are dutifully 

Blessed


We sigh unseen

The green comes mean

Stains in the air

Burdens of care


To cathedrals we go

Marching slow

To tame some flame

To bend us low








Published first in Ginosko Literary Journal Issue 36 JUN 2026

https://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/





JARRING



The wind up there

Will it blow

And breeze through trees?

Will flowers grow?

Will streams flow?


Does nature cease 

Where minds increase?

Do beasts wander stars

Near and far?


Or is it a jar?

A terrarium space

Of samples so dear

Kept alive for fear

Of future emptiness 

Here

 




Published first in Ginosko Literary Journal Issue 36 JUN 2026

RUTH BANCROFT GARDEN





Where eucalyptus

Soar along with cirrus

And agaves pinpoint light

Festoons of crimson

Nimbly grace

Prickly pears’

Staunch embrace


Linden leaves fall

Like sunset parachutes

Greens of gold

In forms so old

Cups of drink

Within them slink


Dreams in air

Painted yearnings

Brushstrokes curving

Catching cotton

Swabbing longly

In shade well-trodden

Deep in souls

Not forgotten








Published first in Ginosko Literary Journal Issue 36 JUN 2026

https://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/

KISS

 



I handed you over to tiny sunbursts


My child


My mind


This slip of time







First published in Ginosko Literary Journal Issue 36 JUN 2026

https://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/







HORNS








Rattle each verse

Til they split at the 

Seams


Unlock your horns

Bereft future dreams


Cataclysmic enchantments

Come hither

Full speed


The rifts come to shatter

Our hearts

Left to bleed






First published in Illumen / Hiraeth Publishing APRIL 2026 *printed issue




 

JUST LET ME



Just let me walk

Where a fence trims

A swath of grass


Just let me walk

In the shade 

Of an old maple tree


Just let me walk

Where the hills meet the dawn


I could never falter

With this walking


These are spaces

Where the soul

Does the talking









Published first in Tiny Seed Journal Paths issue APR 16, 2026

https://tinyseedjournal.com/2026/04/16/just-let-me/






 

LAVENDER


 














Calculating and prim
Lavender is not ruled
By any light whim

Like small forests
They root and lean
Bridging land
Dry and gleaned

They seek drought
And do without
By building wood from air

They stand up straight
And give back
In spades
The finest scented air




Honorable Mention in the 2026 Alice Osborn Award contest for a poem for children - North Carolina Poetry Society April 3, 2026

https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/announcing-pinesong-contest-winners-for-adult-and-student-contests-2026/

Published in the 2026 Pinesong Anthology 


RIGHTEOUS BLIGHT




Chase and bait

Keep the faith

Late in coming

Hear the healing

Far in seeing

Worth believing

Pentecostal dreaming

Seemingly for the good

Of all


Overstep the mark

And it falls






Published first in Dissident Voice MAR 22, 2026




 

FLUSH


The elegance

Of stardom’s rush

To stoop

And look to find

My own hollows

Flush









First published in The Piker Press, DEC 1, 2025

 

GLOWING


Truth in strands

Comes dashing low

Over bent fields

Solemn

We glow










Published first in The Piker Press, OCT 27, 2025

https://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=11498


*Painting by Winslow Homer, Metropolitan Museum of Art





 

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