Tag: poem

  • For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree

    For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree

    An excerpt from my novel, American Dream. The character Daniel remembers his mother: “If he could go back in time to when Mother was a child and protect her invisibly throughout her life, he was sure that he would do it. He tried to compose a poem for her during the long ride back. Let…

  • Where the Monster Is ~ dVerse Poetry Day

    Where the Monster Is   the monster is me under careful clothes the monster is me below moving muscles the monster is me hiding deeper than bare bone and haunting caverns of cells   inside my experience the monster thinks inside my ideas the monster travels inside my stories the monster exposes himself and is…

  • Winter Stalking Trees in NYC

    Winter Stalking white snow marks off black tree trunks walking stalking trees too move sharp stiff trees stare back at me taller damp and green blue moss hidden they watch my gray eyes with their hazel ones in silent decay

  • Everyone Has A Sept 11th Story

    Everyone has a Sept 11th Story here I watched the disaster from the bus coming into Manhattan to work and the glass separated us from the fire and the ash but not from fear