January 2025
Bio Note: I am an award-winning poet and artist. My poems have been published in several anthologies, in newspapers and online, including The Long Island Quarterly and The High Window, where I was named the Featured American Poet. My first full-length book of poetry, Glimpse, was published in April 2023.
Your Voice is Like Rain Now
your voice is like rain now
misty drips and droplets
falling on a far watercolor garden
pinks running into blues
happy notes in yellow rivulets
flowers looking out with hazel eyes
little wet bees and butterflies
wandering, tasting
here and there
do you have birds where you are?
the tiny wise ones that chirp in the morning
do you sing to them as you sang to me
before I fell asleep?
Originally published in The Long Island Quarterly, Winter 2020-21 Issue
Blurry Fluttering
on the shelf
by the window
a picture of you in a place I’ll call heaven
playing piano in a garden
next to it, your aftershave
opened briefly and only on special occasions
and lots of angels left and right,
just in case, though neither of us believe
a small photograph of us when I was two
you are directing my attention to the camera
then, and even now
you are encouraging me to smile
was that you
just now, in the window?
or was it only the blurry fluttering
of peripheral birds?
first, the sound of muffled flight
then, the hollow silence of empty air
Originally published in Home Planet News Issue 10
Gone to the Angels
in the drawer
so many pictures of ghosts
their heads and bodies
crowding together
to fit into the frame
I can hear their voices
painting the room with life
hear the camera click
see the all too brief
white flash of light
illuminating their skin
every one of them
now gone to the angels
striking a pose elsewhere
stars lighting up their eyes
Originally published in Agape Review, April 1, 2022
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