Boundaries we come to know, and believe. Tried, tested, often failed. How can we reach out if we don’t know how far we have gone from stranger to acquaintance. Or lovers. Former to later. Boundaries seemed not to matter. Overwhelmed, still and again, self-doubt and denial I am unable to confess even to myself. And […]

When did we stop paying attention to the world around us? A teenager cruises through an intersection on a bike, one hand on the handlebars, eyes focused only on the cell phone in his other hand. An office worker charges off an elevator and into a tray of hot coffee, her eyes never lifting from […]

I’ve got to buy myself a guitar. Acoustic or electric, it doesn’t matter (I play like shit anyway… or did when I did decades ago) but I know I need a guitar. I’ve been considering the purchase far too long. I have words, poems (lyrics, I suppose) that seem to need more space than a […]