You Know Your Meeting Is Long When … :: March 31, 2008

Rings in the wood grain
Of the conference table
Expand each hour …

Literary Longings :: March 29, 2008

In the used bookstore,
Desperate titles beckon,
Hoping for a touch.

Post-Katrina Metaphor :: March 28, 2008

Through the cracked blacktop
On Bourbon Street, honey bush
Pokes its slight, green fist.

Food for Thought :: March 26, 2008

New Orleans feels like
A warm beignet dipped into
Cold café au lait.

Regional Differences :: March 25, 2008

Gumbo and crawfish,
Spiced by blue fire, spar all night
Inside my bowels.

Death’s Scythe :: March 21, 2008

My toenail acts like
Death’s scythe, sending all my socks
To an early grave.

Visual Doppler Effect? :: March 20, 2008

The airplane’s image
Grows then shrinks along the car’s
Curving windshield.