Marriage is part business, part romance; Part contract, part licensure, part dance. Why marriage? Isn't love enough? Not really, when t...

  A political poem, written after 9/11, about the mistake of fighting terror as you would a conventional war:   So many years! And now w...

  A philosophical number poem about the meaning of forever:   Forever isn't endless time. It isn't time at all. For time's the...

  A 33 rd anniversary poem contrasting the sexual pleasures of love and lust:   T he passion of love, the passion of lust: H ow might ...

  A philosophical Easter poem about one way of knowing what one owes others:   E xactly who are you? Why are you here? A nd what is your pu...

  A philosophical number poem listing some signs of happiness: Signs of happiness: A clear vocation; Intimacy rooted in relation; Xeroxed me...

  A name poem for Cheryl, who has inoperable cancer:   C heryl, unlike most, had to decide, H aving inoperable cancer, whether being -- E ...

  A number poem about being at the age of forty-three:   F orty-three's a summer afternoon O n a weekday bathed in molten light. R ivers...

  A poem about the teaching profession:   From teachers, there is much that one can learn. One ought not judge their worth by what they...

  A Veterans Day poem about the psychological difficulty of returning to civilian life:   Voices of the dead are all around me. Everyone al...

  A calendar poem for November:   N ovember knows the beauty of a line: O ne stroke across the heart of a gray sky. V acancy is where true...

  HELL HAS LITTLE HOPE OF HAPPINESS A Halloween poem about why the inmates of Hell visit us on All Hallows’ Eve:   Hell has little hope of h...

A poem for Columbus Day in which Columbus asks us to understand the context of his actions and appreciate his role in creating our times: ...

  A calendar poem for September:   S eptember lingers in the arms of love E ven as a certain crispness calls. P erhaps some fear she's...

  A congratulations poem on the birth of a child:   C learly, there could be no better news. O f life and love, now there will be more. N ...

  A calendar poem for August:   A ugust starts to shade a bit towards shade, U pon the cusp of full tide and retreat, G race, poised upon ...

  A goodbye poem to a friend who is going away:   F arewell, my friend and confidante! A s you go, so must I R esume alone the well-worn p...

  A poem for Bastille Day about how idealistic ends can inspire brutal means:   Good and honest people can do evil As just ends can ins...

  A calendar poem for July:   J uly lies lazy, like a muddy river U nconscious of its slow slide to the sea. L ife seems like it just goes...

  A calendar poem for May:   May is innocent and hot to breed, Alternately chaste and ruled by need, Yielding to the wisdom of her see...