GonzoFest 2017 was a wonderful experience, in spite of the fact that I remembered everything I needed but somehow managed to fo rget my c...

Hope rises expectant on Opening Day. Last season’s transgressions are forgiven. For a moment, we are wide-eyed. For a moment, we are...

Fish out of water. The river is flooded. Tornadoes tearing up the plain states and the cats are fighting and yowling between lightening stri...

People will talk to you like that just because they assume you're a relatively new arrival on Main Street means you haven't lived a...

More days pass and I notice my beard is going white and my eyes are a tired blue and the world around me is bloated with rust and rot and te...

I sat with her while she died talking to her more than I ever did when she was alive while the shallow breathing slowed and the raspy moans...

O n the occasion of his first DUI, Rusty ran his ’87 Mercury off the road, just over the hill out of town. He totaled the car and the Dr. ha...

Give me back the grand delusion and let me be whole again. I heard the old man speak and his tired blue eyes locked onto mine. I was comple...

Freedom – Poem 1 the axioms don’t match out when you unravel them cat style, like a big ass ball of yarn (like in those cartoons you watched...

O nce I met man who swore he could show me Truth. Once I met a woman who tried to school me in her definition of Beauty. Once I read a book ...

i. On insomniac nights in Northern Illinois when all the streets are rolled up and put away even the stars have enough sense to stay home. i...

T hough it has been better than five years since I last walked your streets I know them without having to see them or feel them under my fee...

Etiquette in the Digital Age Somewhere around an hour before blacking out I would become inspired lock myself in my room and call every sing...

Day 19: I in the Universe I am not as strong and the dirt is not as soft as I would like. My hands haven’t the calluses of other men, and I...

1. Twigs-n-berries Some’s got more and some’s got less, but everybody’s got something even if some’s got more than others. (old woman sitti...

       T hey said: he was a happy child so far as we knew. He smiled a lot and was open with strangers; he held doors open for little old la...

I imagine every beginning is like this one: stumbling out of slumber and into a faint light, like the start of a symphony or that moment be...

P aying the postage for my rejections is the last in a long list of random humiliations heaped upon me by editors who, because I am not frie...

W hen there is no other easy option we will panic and turn on one another and worry when there is no point because that is what we have been...

T he magnolia tree in side yard is blooming and the garbage is set out on the curb. I will know when the truck comes when the house shakes a...