Out Like a Lamb (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/2248076 When April is done I will have thirty poems - (perhaps two good ones). *note ▶︎ * Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:44:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113347 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113347 I had forgotten how they would pass one by one in front of and before me as steady stars are snuffed by mornings and walking through this peculiar dawn where a triumphant sun assassinates, I reminisce about their radiant display where all my family elders held me close a pack of pretty planets in my cosmos gone one by one before me to the Day. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:43:53 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113346 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113346 The seasons birth another spring arriving hesitantly, still as snow then stirring on light kitten feet seeking nourishment, a break of day, the mother's warm support of sun. *note ▶︎ * Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:40:14 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113345 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113345 Already deaf, he wrote a tribute to delight as if to celebrate descending into silence. When he premiered it to intense applause, they had to turn him 'round to see - on their feet, the listeners faced him, awed, each expressing pure amazed elation where sound itself became secondary to this jubilant assemblage of souls. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:08:53 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113344 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113344 Bedtime is a hero in Superman pajamas. He gestures gently, mimes a slumber bestows reminders to surrender offers darkness in a quiet at the end of this day & the next He rises to the rescue provides the respite of obliteration in a land of non-participation to the lovely bliss of off up, up, & away. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:53:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113343 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113343 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow does not creep but prances in toward now where candles shine and players win prizes and shadows dance attached to living figures defying death. Life is so much more than storied, greater than the idiotic, full of song and flame told by poets and sunbeams and ocean depths heard echoing endlessly, implying everything. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:59:24 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113342 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113342 Mirror of me: Tree limbed. Lanky. A puppet-jointed person with hands and feet on hinges, angled awkwardly. And me: dressed daily in this costume for Halloween, as Mrs. Bones. Me, and me again: Meekly brittle. Small. An unsightly uncertainty. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:39:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113341 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113341 We grew up feral. Shooed outside, popping wheelies - we owned the street inventing games: run, jump & hide becoming friends with kids we meet sing-chanting rhymes we got the beat - our summer days were long and slow we stirred up trouble, dodged the heat with nothing caught on video. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:34:42 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113340 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113340 My son's bearded face, one eye blind & clouded by glaucoma is absent of worry, of envy & of embarrassment or guilt no shame, no insecurity He holds his squishy yellow duck headphones? music on? he asks, rocking on the couch for constant rocking is his comfort He is twenty-four and also six and even as I often mourn the man he will unquestionably never be, I treasure the innocence he will for certain never lose. He calls me ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:46:44 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113339 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113339 And when I step outside from the tent into Adirondack air of pine and beech, of sugar maple, dew, the spruce alive and scents of fragrant fir all blended into this, a recipe for peace, I breathe now knowing what serenity smells like. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:52:24 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113338 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113338 Tom lifts his pencil sketches himself exiting leaves it half-finished. *note ▶︎ * Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:56:55 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113337 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113337 My family and me all live under the sea And we dance a ballet by the reef you're invited to watch us; recitals are free. My family and me all live under the sea but we watch for opponents perpetually so our graceful performance is brief. My family and me all live under the sea And we dance a ballet by the reef. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:47:10 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113336 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113336 Goldfish in the ocean where she does not belong tries her best to impersonate a whale. Orca trapped in a tank where he does not belong does his best to imitate a goldfish. *note ▶︎ * Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:42:24 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113335 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113335 I met the deadline but was unimpressed. He was too demanding; his demeanor distant - my punctuality acknowledged with stiff and steely silence. I don't want to meet another. I will take my time with tasks and lag behind on hikes I will miss the bus, the tip-off, the beginning of the film turn in assignments tardy write poems when I'm good and ready I will burn calendars stop clocks, smash watches flipping breakers, cutting po...[Read Full Post] Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:51:57 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113333 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113333 When I was sixteen, I predicted our collective destiny - everything wireless, cars flying through the sky robot chefs, world peace but here we are untangling cords & cooking our cars solid on the ground let's be honest, the world peace part was too tall an order but remember we had Live Aid and Farm Aid and We Are the World - a momentum of care and for a while it felt possible but cars will fly like pigs ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:29:22 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113332 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113332 I felt so lucky just to have her for those almost-seven years; an only child suddenly a sister thanks to research and some DNA She found four-leaf clovers once - two (in just the time it took to rest on a bench at the County Fair) and proudly offered both to me and though I combed the grasses as a child through suburban lawns searching for the rare mutated gene imagining my find in fruitless vain I never found one on my own. It took a differe...[Read Full Post] Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:40:10 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113258 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113258 I read a few of them again and some, in fact, repeatedly these days usually on audio to save my old, exhausted eyes. They are near-memorized lullabies providing ways to sanity, to calm, to unplugged ordered places & sometimes, simply into sleep. The soothing sameness, soft as candle shadows on old walls words I wish I could experience for the first time again, again again to be so moved, excited once again to feel so embraced in certai...[Read Full Post] Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:45:52 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113244 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113244 I let my glasses keep their smudge and smear, allow my gaze to fall, unfocused, down to blur the edges of my now, right here. I'd rather drag my eyes along the ground than look upon your face inside this frame since 20 years have somehow gone and passed. My memories have raced beyond your name to settle in a place that I've amassed where you (and others) melt into a pool - and often I immerse myself, unbound by bone, by form, by thoug...[Read Full Post] Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:36:13 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112857 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112857 And so tomorrow they will film an ominous beginning. Even invitations, made to look like VCR tapes, joked "The Evil Wed" - for both love horror movies, haunted houses, Halloween spooked but entering anyway, a second wedding coin flip: (floating) heads or (severed) tails in it for the Oscar because maybe they can be the couple who escaped the killer outlasting all the murdered marriages until the credits roll. *...[Read Full Post] Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:43:04 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112772 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112772 I sometimes struggle often wobble always rise. *note ▶︎ * Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:59:05 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112767 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112767 Perhaps outside of time each moment is alive dancing a simultaneous salsa. *note ▶︎ * Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:56:04 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112765 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112765 I invent a new trend where we all wear fine hats made of feathers from nests we perch in tall pine trees and sing loud from our breasts we leave behind worry we leave behind walking we leave behind hurry we leave behind talking and when dying, we'll fly from the branches above as our crown feathers fall we'll ascend into Love. *note ▶︎ * ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:37:05 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112560 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112560 There once was a young man who swallowed live fish for revenge? Was it Jonah? Believe what you wish but I say he must have been drunk, in a haze and there's no chance he spat it back up in three days! *note ▶︎ * Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:41:45 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112557 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112557 I found white flowers that bloom in winter, bursting through a freeze Impossible yet here, like Christ on Easter Day showing snowdrops how to rise. *note ▶︎ * Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:06:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112473 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112473 I drop t a lette r of my last nam e when I wrot e in my diarie s, to never lose. I can that a win. *note ▶︎ * Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:56:07 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112468 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112468