DONREARDEN

once you commit to crossing there is no going back barbed wire requires certain care look at a leather couch or my left palm those...

Last Poem I can't help but wonder about our last poem humanity's very final thought captured in verse handwritten or typed scrawled in...

the neighbors' eggs hatched a sense of relief swept down the street we all feel a new sense of vigilance scan the sky for enemies...

the play is the thing we return to and we know what is coming how it ends but hope for a twist as if we could learn alongside the...

defined by horse power cannot rein in desire ridden to death ends justify being mean this work horse this dark horse cantered, loped,...

Dear Constituent, I realize you took your time to write me on this day but contributed not a dime so your letter will not sway while I am...

the solution to education funding came easier than anyone expected on Friday we shuttered the schools on Monday we were open for business...

the mystery of modern man with all his technological wonders this simple solution eluded humanity there was no device gizmo or gadget...

snow deep and soft three mile slog a glacial pace across the lake a long ribbon of strangers under-dressed, over-dressed some in dress...

cutting caribou smile with each slice a gift from the Arctic cuts to the bone this realization happiness brought in a bag the tundra...

the note from his teacher got carried away today, refused said said said words that blurred read and read again said said said even...

at this moment the world belongs to birds in the distance gulls crying out with joy as they circle an ocean of trash a chickadee flutters...

in my pocket an accident, captured on film of what, I'm not sure alien planet infinite space an abyss some matrix glitch ones and zeroes...

we take family walks rain or shine, through the woods around the neighborhood up the mountain today my son caught fish in potholes deep...

angles betray me corners I can cut but I am obtuse when confronted with vertices the symptoms acute give me a radius or pi and catch me...

they met on the weekends at The White House Santa Claus suggested the venue a secure location, and vacant, he said of course he was right...

the bears are out, we say a warning for all to be more aware secure trash cans, and children when they lumber from dens groggy and...

hearts melt, break tears puddle, pool innocence, a snowdrift gone, in a flash cry not, for snow winter returns, soon enough the sidewalk,...

today a bomb huge, tremendous, bigly dropped the word drop in music means to switch the rhythm drop a beat water drops from clouds from...

listen you can hear your heart listen animals will speak listen walls are no obstacle listen water whispers become roars listen trails...