When you find your true voice
marry it
— never to divorce
(Deamsleep: January, 2024)
The First Cut ...
Avoid needless
complexity
Say it
straight out
Frost and
then Hemingway
Set the rules
down
Between meaning
and verbiage
The idea
is king
Sharpen
the point
The message
— the thing
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
Logan Pass
I’m a poet devoid
of Cliff Notes
dissection
not my thing
Don’t ask me
to explain my words
I’d rather hum
and sing
Explication
penniless
in ghettos
of the word
Where vagrants
pull and tear apart
what only should
— be heard
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)