FEATURED POEMS – “Dress Shoes”
Who knew one could learn something doing the dishes.
“Dress Shoes” was recently published in Pennine Platform in the north of England. It is my second time to have work published there.
DRESS SHOES
Washing the breakfast things,
I notice they’re more than things:
bone-china mug from the Queen’s
Jubilee––a trip to London;
five-cup coffee-maker––perfect
for one. I had to learn to care
for things––knives I no longer put
in the dishwasher, having read
tempered steel degrades
in the heat of the drying cycle;
words composing themselves
in my head (how morning sun
ignites the ginkgos); my Oxfords,
your birthday. Yes, even the dead.
READ SOME OTHER POEMS (Click on the hot-linked grey text)
“Red Geraniums,” The Rainbow Project (Poets Wear Prada)
“Act III” and “Lo Stadio dei Marmi, Rome," Inlandia Journal
“Sonnet with Birch Trees, Tatars, and Crayolas” Cider Press Review, Vol.25 Issue #1
“Vocabulary Lesson,” Verse Daily
“Somewhere in Georgia” and “Belated Valentine for Alex,” Under a Warm Green Linden
“The Death of Heidegger,” Penn Review
“Christ of the Frogs, with Thieves,” “Catchment,” and “Operating Instructions” Full Bleed, (Maryland Institute College of Art)
“On the Sayville Ferry,” The Westchester Review
“Boy, Stepping from the Shower, a Towel around His Waist,” Full Bleed, (Maryland Institute College of Art)
“December 31st,” The Inquisitive Eater (New School Food)
“At the Precise Moment of the Solstice” and “First Encounter,” Marathon Literary Review (Arcadia University, Philadelphia)
“Monet vs. The International Pop Art Exhibit,” Honorable Mention, E. E. Cummings Prize, New England Poetry Club.
“Cytokinesophobia,” Palette Poetry
“At the Shrine of Moinuddin Chisti,” Podium, an online publication of the Unterberg Poetry Center at New York’s 92nd StreetY
“Beneath Me,” all the sins
“Questions for Anthropophogists” - The Inquisitive Eater (New School Food)
“Predilections of the Carnivores” - The Inquisitive Eater (New School Food)
“Self-Driving Tesla Involved in Fatal Crash” - New Verse News
“Correction” - New Verse News