I have kissed a man as a boy
and a boy as a man,
and some I have known,
and some have known me;
and this is as it happens
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My Girl
Far from the shorn lawn
that scratches my back
July-born breezes brushing
cool upon my cheek
her catholic life
in cloistered circle
of the ones who know her
as sister
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that scratches my back
July-born breezes brushing
cool upon my cheek
her catholic life
in cloistered circle
of the ones who know her
as sister
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Primordial
In that place, that place wherein my brain was not yet fully formed, and my heart knew things it could not say, it
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The Change
Christmas flirted for the 67th time
with the winter of my 68th year,
skirting just ahead of my birthday,
and felt much the way an old friend
who has changed
with the winter of my 68th year,
skirting just ahead of my birthday,
and felt much the way an old friend
who has changed
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Daughter Mine
There was a time not long past during which I pursued the wisp and wraith of my longing for filia mea,
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Lady
Striking off
the major track
to the small black road
tangent to her house
he saw a car approach,
and she was driving,
the children that
she bore close beside
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the major track
to the small black road
tangent to her house
he saw a car approach,
and she was driving,
the children that
she bore close beside
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That Place
This short sketch falls somewhere between remembrance and fiction, as what about our memories is infallibly real, and what about fiction is indisputably fantasy? The impetus to write this had
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Analena Revisited
My daughter has evinced no small talent when it comes to creative writing, and her story, Analena (link opens in a new tab), penned in 2016, and which I recommend
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Sirmiq the Little Penguin
Thousands of Strangers Gave a Sick 9-Year-Old in Maine an Early Christmas
Jacob Thompson spent nearly half of his short life battling cancer.
The 9-year-old boy, who loved
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A Wind
This poem was written as a tribute to the talent of Ms. Lili Reinhart, a young actress whose cameo at the conclusion of the rather somber movie “Galveston”, touched me
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