Personal Poetry

The Buick (Poem fictionalizing a key part of my father's life in 1946)

Placeholder (An actual placeholder until a longer narrative is complete)

My Stubborn Heart (On now getting a pacemaker on top of three stents)

No Oversight (Old Poem resurrected for Mother's Day)

Pulling Dandelions (On another birthday)

Vehicular Manslaughter (On being besieged by construction traffic)

Identity Parade (On being falsely accused)

A Broken Arm (Old poem resurrected with Trump's elimination of aviation safety advisory board members)

Positioning (Spam artists and self-publishers)

The Walk (On walking through life)

The Monster On House Arrest (On being home-bound for an EEG test)

The Hawk And The Dove (On watching a homeless hawk die)

A Father Contemplates Father's Day (An old poem about fatherhood)

Monday, You're Finally Mine (On seeing Mondays through a retirement perspective)

Transient Global Amnesiac (On a recent medical situation)

No Argument From Me (On mutually dissolving relationships)

I In Your Mirror (On the pace of retirement)

Silence (On silence once retired)

To Marcus (Our Brutus) (On the death of a beloved dog)

In A Blue Field (Missing the train wreck that was a different potential job)

The Monster Among The Empty Rooms (On aging and losing brain functionality)

Apprehension (On anxiety)

Atlas Hugged (When the weight of the heavens wears on you)

Whatever (On the randomness of life)

Sonneteering (Trilogy of sonnets on a career)

32 Years (Anniversary poem)

There Is No Number (Quelling rumors)

A Day (Remembering July 1, 2017)

A Staycation Journal (Vacation ennui)

In This Time Of Submission (On significant submissions)

Love In The Time Of Immunization (Anniversary poem)

My Grandpa's Tie Clip (On a family heirloom and beyond)

And I U (Digging into the past)

Wood (Reflections on 5 year anniversaries)

Party (In honor of my sisters' birthday)

Gun, Gas or Grain (Reflecting on paternal history)

Cast (Final poem in trilogy on career decisions)

Boomerang (More on making career decisions)

The Hat, The Ring (On going for a promotion)

In An Unfamiliar Place (Reflections post stent-procedure on life again)

Narrower (A Story Straight From The Ticker) (More potential stents mean more reflection on life)

Trash (On watching the trash pile up around my lake)

Recessional (To A Setting Son) (On watching my kid graduate from my own college)

Check-Out Lines (On mortality)

I At The Front Of Inertia (Questioning my role in inertia)

It's Probably Nothing (On being contacted by person from my past)

An Empty Room (On standing in my mother's still unsold home)

Not For Public Consumption (On not being able to say what I always want to say)

Three Striking Lyrics (Separate poems written while wife was in knee surgery)

Smooth Muscle Beached (Former poem about leadership gets reassessed and revised)

Two Sheds Are Better Than One (2 poems with shed(ding)s as metaphor)

Seconds (On getting second chances in life)

A Broken Rib (A broken rib is the least to give for love)

My Grandfather's Chambers (Reflections on my grandfather's suicide 35 years ago)

Ash Sunday (Spreading my parents' ashes in Glacier National Park)

Trails of Years (On returning to my hometown)

A Son-ography (My mother's pregnancy while she was in college)

Rebuffed (My father's challenges passing the swim test at Harvard)

Piano Center Stage (On the origins of my parents' union)

Airplane Mode (On the death of my parents)

Restoration (The passing of a mentor)

Canine Gladiators (Dogs play fighting)

Smooth Muscle (Dedicated to my father, pharmacologist, on Father's Day)

Year Forty-Nine (Turning 49)