Among the best
are those who were the worst,
whose lives mirrored nothing of th
nothing of their canvasses or lyre
Wagner’s cerulean notes

My Last Trophy-Wife
(Apologies to Robert Browning)
That photo of my ex there on the
Is one I took before we split las
Yeah, people always ask me how I

Higher Powers
From birth to death some others mu
You see, as infant, round-faced, g
Above the crib, to serve you, need
Precluded by efficacy of sobs.

An Abomination*
Ice-gleamed streets, sky an ebony
and a girl accordions her tiny car
into the back of mine.
She, carmine-streamed, head throug

Kings once favored beheadings;
and when it was their turn,
so did angry peasants
America chose a different tableau:
Black hoods, elaborate nooses

Constructing a Cathedral:
St. Etienne, France, 1350 A.D.
Arms and legs a jumble of moving s
the workers swarm like flies aroun
hardly heeding screams of those wh

The Futility of Action
Our lives are sprawled in a meanin
where aims benevolent or evil, sel
eventuate in tortured remnants of
where Christ’s counsel of love to

The Jacaranda in Spring
(Near Rhyme)
What discount art inspired this ta
Eleven months a year you’re quite
Too dark and gaunt, we thought, to

My First Pot Boiler
(George Meredith advised Thomas
Dear Publisher:
I’ve joined a fiction writing grou
Techniques that writing experts ha

Don’t shock me with your atheistic
God gave us all a book that proves
And serves us as a guide for all w
excepting parts that don’t make se
God serves us like a good psycholo