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- Fraiku: 90 seconds to Midnight 2023/01/27
- Fear Itself 2023/01/24
- Happy New Year! 2023/01/21
- Fraiku: Winter Night 2023/01/20
- Coalesce Broadsides! 2023/01/18
- “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” 2023/01/16
- Fraiku: My Black Cat 2023/01/13
- Coalesce 2023/01/09
- Fraiku: Not just a little shy 2023/01/06
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Fraiku: 90 seconds to Midnight
We dodged the nuclear bulletonly to devise a slow extinction by climatethen got bored when that took too long
Fear Itself
That big angry dog at the end of my paper route half German Shepherd half fear itself The one who barks and snaps at my tires as I pedal away fast as my twelve-year-old legs can pump Some days he’s … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
I’m proud to announce that my poem I Think Too Much is featured at Ephemeral Elegies. Hop on over and check it out. Thank you, Tiffany Renee Harmon, for posting my work.
Fraiku: Winter Night
Shooting star spits across the skyignored by the pine treesglazed with ice
Coalesce Broadsides!
For my dear readers who can’t visit the Eno Arts Mill Gallery in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this month but still want to check out the Coalesce exhibit of visuals paired with poetry, you can do it online and even buy … Continue reading
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long,but it bends toward justice.” Justice does not come from policeexecuting choke holds and no-knocks. Justice comes from citizens of consciencebreaking unjust laws and accepting punishment. Freedom does not come from an armyof … Continue reading
Fraiku: My Black Cat
Born on Friday the 13thhe crosses humans’ pathsjust for fun
Coalesce
Last Friday, about the time my Fraiku posting, I was reading two of my poems to over a hundred art lovers at the opening night of an exhibit in my town of Hillsborough, North Carolina. Coalesce, A Collaboration of Poetry … Continue reading
Fraiku: Not just a little shy
When I grow up I want to live under the sea where it’s quiet and dark (for this month’s Visual Poetry Prompt.)
7 New Year’s Resolutions You’ll be Able to Keep
If you’re feline: Knock more things off desks. Take more naps in the sun. If you’re canine: Sniff more trees. Mark more trees. Roll in something stinky every day. If you’re human: talk less, read more, pick up after yourself, … Continue reading