What Crosses My Mind

  • I Remember Slowly

    When I was a boy, a baseball game outside, trying to get along, I was just being a boy, found an edge, a warm sort of fuzzy disposition took me outside, to be that boy the baseball diamond. I couldn’t hit the ball without the edge, I just needed a little push, while everyone else…

  • Wise Repartee

    We like to be right, you and me, yes you, not me, only us, we all seem to never want to agree, instead, we’d like to be right all the time. or do we just want to be ok. A couple of years ago, I fought the urge to be wrong, didn’t wish to ever…

  • When I Drink

    When I drink faded images appear, silent, moving, attractive filtered visions. When I drink that settled need, gnawing reality quiet departs leaving little love. When I drink, you certainly cannot know me the way, I know I’m sick. When I drink, the fog I seek envelops my soul, blurs drawn energy settles incessant. When I…

  • Scotch on the Rocks -prose-

    Nine years ago, I had one of these. Around 4 in the afternoon, as soon as I could after getting out of work. I know I probably had two before going home for about 1/2 hour and then taking off with the excuse that I had correcting to do. My school basketball team was in…