Drinking Coffee Alone People I have loved keep dying. They lull you into a sense of reassuring permanence then stop showing up,  chatting, breathing, being. I accept  no blame, never said anything overly  offensive and intend to be here indefinitely.  But it’s not easy to replace the quitters.  Other people already have their quota of […]

Moonphase The moon, with its unblemished predator eyes, hunts for the human heart. I steal four drifting poems— Your moonlit body floats in through the perfumed window of the sky. I. Jazz of endless desire plays at the pinnacle of the air. The world sways, unravels itself, Bubbles rise, hover, burst. The skeleton of a […]

Easy It’s  easy to walk  into the ocean –   to gamble  your last   dime to go  crazy when  the  screaming  gets too  loud –  but  it’s  practically  impossible  to love what’s  good for  you ~~~ Life savers We’ve   been trying  to save each other  since the   day we met  We  fought  a thousand  fires and  […]

Listening to Jazz in Newport Beach (Remembering the Holocaust) All the beautiful clothes In a pile on the floor Some beginning to wear A thread loose, color fading A piece of hair Of living human beings They watch and listen to the jazz Look closer Prettiness gone, fading too Eyeglasses, teeth, possessions Become just cracks […]