A feeble breeze luffs the blind like an impotent sail August probes a tongue at the edge of open windows and doors insistent cicadas draw ragged lines on summer and scrape at eardrums inattentive in the darkened bedroom I surrender my head to crossed arms and the scent of old linen beg for solitude and [...]

What I wanted was cheering up but said I was looking for somebody to share a beer and some laughs and the thought of heated bodies at the drive-in movie seemed like a good way to keep away the blues so I went with this guy, a friend of a friend whose name I can’t [...]

Hear me read 3 poems from my “Anger and Aloes” collection.

You took apart the old Victrola
and used the works to wind a string
so we could pull a wicker basket
to the second story landing
we called a balcony.