What Crosses My Mind

  • The Lives We Lead

    I turned a corner the other day, received some applause. Remember imagining there was not anything in our way when now we give in to our ideals, this harmonic pause we could only stand alone remembering, day after day. ~ There was a dance floor in town where everybody showed their moves, their needs, their…

  • Wausau 1979

    Try to imagine where it was, the moment inside a memory, what did the breeze feel like, certainly there was one, the glen inside a cove surrounded in maples and pine, and short shrifts of sumac pine needles all across the forest wood where we as children climbed only the same tree, familiar branches, I…

  • If, Wonder Might Recall

    We circle our lives in a constant twirl deciding upon a sacred trust of following trails cascading in waters a fresh, puritanical veil we are always looking, wondering, in a wander if this is what is meant to be our only real.   Remember when as a child the sweet irony of morning the sun…

  • Finding Voice

    I walked outside and screamed at the bottom of my driveway, only because I knew no one would notice, well, they did, and their doors shut, I stood in my neighborhood and felt completely alone.   The manicured lawns, similarly styled rose gardens, the roof repair and invisible fences, street signs that suggested we all…

  • Eccentric Complement

    When life stopped, that ideal romantic interlude, our travel together, we were a match in the fall of ’78, ’79 I looked in your eyes, while the traffic went by, didn’t matter really, your smile radiant, you had your elegant demeanor, I was a young lad, you were my gift, I couldn’t imagine a more…

  • Vacant Stares

    If we could, step inside the mind of each, we would discover worlds of laughter above, yearning, pressing, wishing we might teach each of them the key to learning … love. For when I step off my ladder, explore the new ideal rather than ignore the immediacy of that ludicrous scrutiny, I become sadly aware…