[ASR] For a 5K runner who didn't let having a child stop her from winning on Mother's Day '04 in Rochester, NY. ♠♠♠♠♠ A Lady loves to run ♠♠♠♠♠ Catch me, catch m... [More]

[ASR] A rambling invoked by Donna's wry cracks about my eating habits. ♠♠♠♠♠ A potato? ♠♠♠♠♠ Ate salad with chicken. Wow. Bad habit ... eating decent food. A potato w... [More]

[13+] The incongruities of life. ♠♠♠♠♠ Aberrations ♠♠♠♠♠ A banner on the moon, where there is no breeze. A fish frozen in a glacier, baked by sun, melting in an arid la... [More]

[E] Spring in Oklahoma. One flower yields to another. ♠♠♠♠♠ 'Adieu', dirent les jonquilles ♠♠♠♠♠ The last of the daffodils waved goodbye to the violets that perfumed... [More]

[E] A note of thanks to my cousin Allen Lawrence Morgan of Bonanza, Arkansas. ♠♠♠♠♠ Almsgivers ♠♠♠♠♠ I learned not to disturb the eaves and barefoot is for those brave and ... [More]

[ASR] Mixed thoughts scribbled at Cyndy Wright's home in Illinois. ♠♠♠♠♠ At Cyndy's table ♠♠♠♠♠ Magenta, lemon, lime. Plaid cotton drapes her table in mad hues of r... [More]

[ASR] A short poem that has actually been published. ♠♠♠♠♠ August tornado ♠♠♠♠♠ Swept away by hail All gone, except the bitterness we won't release to God. The clouds ... [More]

Beware! this Ark-homa-land! Wander amongst the blackjack and short needle pine. Marvel at the myrtle and zinnias in bloom. Be careful at the rock wall where scorpions may hide. See the ants and the wasps and the lizards. Thank... [More]

[ASR] An inspirational poem. Oh, my! ♠♠♠♠♠ Can’t say goodbye … ♠♠♠♠♠ Can’t say goodbye, my dearest friend, when I soar beyond, where eagles fly. My sorrow left with winter... [More]

[ASR] How many moons will you pass by here? ♠♠♠♠♠ Caressed by light of a thousandth moon ♠♠♠♠♠ Caressed by light of a thousandth moon Your face waxes, Pale as pear blossoms, ... [More]

[ASR] A Great Plains poem. ♠♠♠♠♠ Clover ♠♠♠♠♠ Time spanned the sphere of a clover cluster, inspected by the bee that could not see beyond horizon to the tree whose shadow ... [More]

♠♠♠♠♠ Blue Jeep ♠♠♠♠♠ Haunted by a jeep with a broken window. Moved by a memory of a memory of a moment. Moments that never were. Frightened by a blue jeep I've seen in ... [More]

♠♠♠♠♠ Crumbling bricks ♠♠♠♠♠ Bricks made with sweat, forged in fire, laid by hands for hire, crumble. Forgotten as the men that made them, laid them, lived within them. ... [More]

[ASR] An elegy from Oklahoma. ♠♠♠♠♠ Deer in headlights ♠♠♠♠♠ Neck arched, just so. It stretches towards the cloudless sky captured in the blank behind the eye. I... [More]

[ASR] Weaving the names of automobiles with other images of Detroit. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (ii) ♠♠♠♠♠ I swim under the river encased in my Studebaker surrounded by Buicks and For... [More]

[ASR] Like many cities of wood, Detroit has burned. For many years it was a Halloween tradition. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (iii) ♠♠♠♠♠ Garden patches adorn the abandoned streets where... [More]

[ASR] A ramble about cars and roads. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (iv) ♠♠♠♠♠ Roads, roads, roads. Roll out the roads by any other name! They connect the continent with cars and coaches,... [More]

[ASR] Hot dogs with chili, mustard and onions are a Motor Town tradition. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (v) ♠♠♠♠♠ The tube steak slides out of the bun taking the chili and onions for a ri... [More]

[ASR] Some irony about the life of Henry Ford who was born and died in Dearborn. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (vi) ♠♠♠♠♠ Cruise down the river, cross the lake, come to the mansion Ford ... [More]

[ASR] The People Mover circles downtown Detroit. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (vii) ♠♠♠♠♠ With some pork goulash and pierogi he took the People Mover circled 'round downtown like ... [More]

[ASR] Detroit has been depicted as shabby and poorly maintained. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (viii) ♠♠♠♠♠ sand and salt the dirt of demolition the dust of long neglect covers the huma... [More]

[ASR] Detroit chose progress over aesthetics long ago and paid a price. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (ix) ♠♠♠♠♠ Trees fell to widen the streets and the city once known for beauty dispe... [More]

[ASR] Every city has cycles of growth and death. Folk fleeing to, fleeing from or just passing by. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit (x) ♠♠♠♠♠ They steamed across Lake Erie, Walked-in-the-Water,... [More]

[ASR] Thinking of a friend. Detroit lies between us. ♠♠♠♠♠ Detroit ♠♠♠♠♠ And the same full moon rises in the east on the other side of Detroit where the highways meet a... [More]

[ASR] In French. Still being worked on! ♠♠♠♠♠ Détroit (xii) lune ♠♠♠♠♠ 'Bonsoir', elle m'a dit en vue de la Lune, pleine comme les lis d'eau d'ét... [More]