I like seeing what you’re doing now you’re writing poem books you’re teaching

my Mom once planted a broken tree… into the ground and she was so excited when it sta… to grow leaves it was in our backyard

this one time Courtney and I chugged 20 oz bott… we were in the back seat of my Dad… coming back from somewhere we both had to pee almost immediat…

before there was any real pressure turning us into diamonds we stood in the driveway in the falling snow the street lamps were orange and

the first full beer I ever drank was a Mike’s Hard Lemonade I took it from the fridge and drank it in the garage which was adjacent to the house

when we were living at Cheryl’s fa… in Grant, Courtney’s and my room were right next to each other I remember we would just sit on th… right outside our doors

right around a month ago I was in Northern Michigan and th… at a golf outing the golf was fine but just hanging… the guys is what it’s all about

yesterday I was “open ears and open eyes” yesterday there were voices flowering in my… I hope

at the end of one of my finest rel… we met in a park and sat on a benc… she told me it was over I begged her no and cried my eyes… she got up and left and I sat ther…

so BCB stands for bench, curl, ba… one winter my best friend Sam road his bike over everyday to my parents house we would put in our burned CD

when my Dad lived in Benzie the lake would freeze over across… so my Dad, I, and my brother would go out and walk on it we would walk the shoreline

after a long day out on the bay in a cove of Lake Charlevoix we got everything packed to go and started heading for the shore my Dad had seen this thing at Sea…

in high school Charlie and I used to push out our fellow studen… who were stuck in snowbanks we’d come into class half-frozen and late

I washed boats the Summer after I graduated college one day we were over in Harbor Sp… getting ready to do a job and as I was stepping on to this