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With help from Guy Clark, Terry Allen, and Tolkien Some S.O.B. stole my house Out on Lake Cherokee If I hadn’t loved that house so much It wouldn’t mean nothin to me But you son of a **** I’ll tell you what I will not be deterred I’ll find you out and track you downContinue reading “Dirge for Croatan”

I also included a cup of coffee in this picture, as I would have served you one if I was at the house. Instead, I drank it. Hope it has been a good Mother’s Day so far Mom.

Advice to Paterfamilia on A Sunday Come blaggards and feeblesThose prone to the groanFor there’s wise to get upcontained in this pome There’s a stick for a dogand some carrots for haresand for slackin two-leggerssome la-z-boy chairs I’ve got pickles and peanutsPretzels and PopBe ye walkin by,please make for to stop I’m prepared to beContinue reading “Advice to Paterfamilia on A Sunday”

There was once a young boy who listened and watched.He lived in a full household, a busy town, a vibrant world.The world was full of sights and sounds and the boy drank them in like a parched man gulping water from a cold spring.The boy seldom spoke, and so words and images began to fillContinue reading “Let the Stories Burst Forth”

this morning as I sat at homei felt the world was mine aloneeach meadow crafted for my sightfor my eyes only, each moonlight as turtles walk along the creeki realize it’s me they seekwild deer and turkey take a chanceto come nearby for just one glance the daffodils are blooming nowand winds have warmed thatContinue reading “Sunlit Days”

Resume What pays the billsneeds to be filledbut worthless,can’t contain a thing? What carries weightwhat proves we’re greatbut frail and muteis a point, moot? What draws the bloodand, sucking, floodsour lives with endlessvain pursuit? What is this crap?A 2D trap?All life insidea one page map? As pants the heartfor cooling streamsSo seethes the soulat endlessContinue reading “Sunday Poem”