Category Archives: Poetry

an Israeli and a Palestinian walk into a bar together

September. Court is in session again, a darkness on the edge of our town. Winthrop’s vultures have returned to their perches in the forked snag.

On a hillside above Twin Lakes Road a hand-painted sign beside a rugged cross reads, “In loving memory of Josh and Rachel— you will be in our hearts always.”

Population: Obstinate In the family of gateway towns north of Yellowstone National Park Whitehall rightly self-identifies as the neglected youngest brother.

The bearded seal suns on a floe while a polar bear stalks it nearby Biologists say it can smell its prey up to twenty miles distant

“The female       is like             a deformity                   of the male.” ~Aristotle What sleight of manguage did not morph cow to fe-bull,

choosing allofthewords is not poesy

Antartificial speech is not compiled as is programmed computer code; granted, it does have a grammar, but it is not, as a rule, rigorous— nor enforced at the time the words intended for end users are composed.

The morning of February 20 a pair of eagles took flight from a nearby Ponderosa past the windows of Ann Henry’s home and with them she also passed.       Survivors include daughter Cindy.

The moon peeked out from shrouds of cloud Suspended over the chuck-holed road: It wasn’t supposed to be there. No: Forecasters forecast snow, and loads.