Sonnet Diminishing
A sonnet to the twilight, a diminishing verse to the act of witness
Match (1977)
A story I wrote in 1977 at age 14, but for whatever else fairly pointed as early allegory! In embarrassment and nostalgia, I offer it here. “The game had no time limit. It ended when it ended. Nothing else could be said.”
Esmond and Flesh
It is as if the body, the flesh of pubescence around him, the skin of slow-decay in adults, asserts itself.
Barzelletta for the 4th of July
It depends on who you ask and when: the barzelletta was a 15th-16th century Italian poem created mostly as secular song, meant to entertain with rhyme, pun, and word play while perhaps offering some didactic lessons.
His Face In June
A cousin of the rondeau, this little French triolet form leans on repeated lines, though perhaps with something shifting underfoot. . .
Poetry for the Wall
A flash prose reverie on what we hang on to, what we obscure.
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