Sometimes I Fall Down

"Dear Rufus, ... Today a kitten called Jenson was returned to us because of his biting... I wished I could just talk to you to ask you ...

Content Warning: discussion of mental health, emotional health, suicide and sexual abuse 1991: I am in fourth grade. I still believe i...

Here is a queen- sized mattress floating in a still ocean, dozens of pillows, just enough breeze. Here is the way a ray of sunlight fa...

There are rains here in Taiwan like I'd never seen. Go to bed, rain.  Wake up, rain.  In between? Rain.  And I love it.  Love it all o...

An eleven line form whereby the theme/title of the piece, its letters are used to make new words that end each line.  Get help finding your ...

Whole heart -edly.  No half measures.  No holding back, nothing barred. Altogether.  Completely.  Not without fear, but without l...

I'm not anything even remotely approaching a big deal, so when I have supporters, they mean a lot to me.  I think a lot about Renee Dill...

The challenge was to write one poem every day for the month of April.  Thirty poems in thirty days. Before I paused, I did miss a couple d...

For the Workshop Facilitator Who Said of My Poem, "You Don't Really Show Us the Other Person. I Mean, Why is it that You Like Him?...

today, i cooked chayote. chayote is magic. it's a gourd, cousin to squash and melon. it's hard when you cut it and then becomes soft...

Today ends a week of depressing poems. Someone posted (on facebook) a "Pay it Forward" for creative people - you reply to their s...

Your name has come to put me in mind of a dot on a map, the name of a place I haven't been in years. There are towns I've lived in a...

When I first get back to my own home, I will climb into my bed, big as the ocean and begin to nap. I will sleep until I cannot force myself...

Here's the thing of it. I don't know how to write a poem about you without saying Every time I tell you that I love you it's a ...

You awake every day to a drum, the persistent pounding of so many tiny planets on your pillow, their determined orbits blocked until you lif...

There is another world in which, when he told you he wanted you all to himself, you (so like the night sky) threw back your head and laughed...

O Darling Cutie seated at two-one, the things we've done already in my mind would make a red man blush, would make a nun recite ten rosa...

I met you in a room with red walls, I remember that much, couldn't say what building on the campus it was but I remember your smile agai...

Dear Mr. Pace: I won't want a big wedding. I'd much rather it be small - just a few close family members, just a few close friends....

Didn't get home until nearly two last night, and I was a little marinated. Sorry. Here's the poem. Oops, I mean draft. Have I sa...