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I love New Haven….it’s an amazing city. Historic, cultural, sometimes gritty, filled with talented people. This is my winning ode to my adopted town. “This Haven” appeared in the New Haven Review
This Haven Back when the river was lush with oyster, long before the Hector rounded the point, the first tribes understood the sanctity of promise. Through season and tide, through harvest and flood, who knows how many oaths have been sworn or shattered between the red rocks of this land? Think of the Sachem giving… Read more
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This poem is for sensitive men everywhere. Gendered Chrysalis appeared in Calliope, the official magazine of the Mensa association in Winter, 2010.
Winter 2011- Issue 130http://calliopeontheweb.org Gendered Chrysalis Long before he understood much, he sensed that when he slid out from the dark folds of his mother’s body, weewee unfurling like a flag, everyone saluted his boyness. Long before he understood much, he feared fists and headlocks, the lunging towards his solar plexus, all the noisy dares… Read more
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Do you know what an appoggiatura is? It’s a grace note performed before another note.
Appoggiatura: Thomas Even as a child, he played around with excess, his little heart too big for his body. At school he brought Valentines for everyone, convinced that no one should be without a friend. He stuffed the cardboard mailbox in the back of the classroom until it broke. The teacher kept him in at… Read more
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Complines at Lower Saranac
e The Blue Line -The Magazine of the Adirondacks published its 35th Anniversary Issue in 2014. My poem “Complines at Lower Saranac” was included in it. Read it here: Complines on Lower Saranac Lake We bid our hosts goodbye, then tie the flashlight to the bow and paddle perfect j-hooks, vowed to silence like Trappists,… Read more
