Monday, March 31, 2014

Hipster on a Second Date



He was shocked.  She didn’t seem
like the type of person whose home
would contain paintings of empty
tables at Sicilian cafes,
but there it was on the wall,
blighting her integrity. 

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Honest Sadness Makes for Bad Poetry

Sadness, like
faint stars or hard truths,
is better seen sideways. Your
reading glasses are
telescopes.






I guess I'm on a haiku kick lately. The form combats my tendency to ramble :)

Monday, March 24, 2014

Poeming!

Hey, everyone! April is approaching, and it's National Poetry Writing Month. Participants aim to write 30 poems in the 30 days of April. Many of us are listing our websites on http://www.NaPoWriMo.net in order to share what we're doing with the challenge.

Normally I don't post much of my poetry online, mostly because I'm hoarding it and submitting it to literary journals and such in hopes of getting some published. But I'll make an exception for April. That said, in order to keep up I'll have to post a lot of drafts (eek!)

In that spirit, here's a small poem I don't mind sparing from my hoard:

 
 
The Yellow Pansies
 
Broken pansy bloom.
I think: How brazen to bet
one's fate on something so paperlike,
looming, wind-tilting, on such
a slender stem.