The Dinner

The Dinner

Round the table,
voices drop
like the wee ones
and the old grandads
disappeared from the
streets just.

“It’s early days,”
Enniskillen mother says
to Omagh father.

Heads nod.

“Aye, early days,”
he says.

Northern Ireland, November 5, 1998

Listen for the Lone Cricket’s Song

Listen for the Lone Cricket’s Song

A collection of poems gathered between late 2019 and throughout 2020.

2020

The Year in Haiku

The Year in Haiku

Poetry, photos, and reflections about the mystery and mindfulness of poetry emergent from a year-long experiment to write a haiku a day.

2015

Three Poems

Three poems written in the months following 11 September in the United States, Colombia, and Burma/Myanmar.

2011