Acceptable in thy sight could mean anyone. I am transforming.  Watch that dog on the corner with the luscious coat of rust. It could be me. A crow screeching murder …

The body captures the rhythm.  A kind of lilt to the step.  Never a tread.  You are looking for ladders to the world. Hooks.  Sometimes it is like holding on …

              for Evan They dragged his ’57 Chevy up to the line.  One quarter mile.  All he had to do was pound that sucker till …

Happy, happy, happy cry the words on the page.  Cry the random persons walking your life. Some wear mourning or is it the five crows silent in the tree.  Ask …

Don’t build fires on the beach.  Don’t swim while impaired.  Don’t cook food. Don’t say anything at all to the seagulls. Don’t forget to call your mother. Don’t tempt fate. …

The house creaks under foot like old leather, like two sheets of plastic rubbed together.  Or a bad violin.  Who is that running up and down stairs?  Perhaps it is …

I am always moving to California on the 12th of every month. I am taking every single thing with me that needs sun. Cats. Music.  Medical marijuana.  Don’t try to …

White cat rests in the sun, still life of impossible beauty. The world comes to him again. It spins his head in sapphire. Grace after grace.  Geese riding the air …

A white cat quiet as God follows the sun around the room. China eyes and a tongue like hickory bark. Moonbeam, shaft of light, why have you chosen us? I …