THE FIELDS I was playing croquet Outside the other day, With the senior league, Everyone wearing white, Limbs lithe, wrinkled but alive, Fending fatigue, The weight of sultry Sarasota air, With the sun now falling, much easier to bear. Next to us, a baseball field,...
WAR I am the only one alone. The others in my kingdom Have heraldry and always Three comrades at their side. Although the Court Jesters Have only each other. But I alone am alone, always alone, In a dungeon, in the dark, The edges of reality Folded in on me While the...
ESCAPE ARTIST The sea surrounds me, Deep, dark, and cold, So black. Blending into the starless sky. I drift in silence, alone and calm, After the scrape of keel on stone. Then suddenly A piteous plea, A sound from someone else, not me, Encircling the sea Aching to be...
THE GAME On low-lying ground, the children started a game With the vaguest of rules but a very clear aim. The object was simply to find the way home, So, with a bagful of clues, they set off to roam. Single file they marched, in order of age: Maria, the oldest, Was...
I am there but not there. Of what’s become of me I‘m barely aware. There is no clear context For what happened before Or what will happen next. When someone speaks to me, I hear every other word, Then simply nod in apathy. I was there but not there When my son was...
