Poems

Red Riding Hood Many are the deceivers: The suburban matron, proper in the supermarket, list in hand so she won’t suddenly fly, buying her Duz and […]

Red Roses Tommy is three and when he’s bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, “Red Roses for a Blue Lady” and […]

Ringing the Bells And this is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam and this is the bell-lady who comes each Tuesday morning to give […]

Rowing A story, a story! (Let it go. Let it come.) I was stamped out like a Plymouth fender into this world. First came the crib […]

Rumpelstiltskin Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out. No bigger than a two-year-old whom you’d call lamb chop yet […]

Said The Poet To The Analyst My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. I confess I am only […]

Small Wire My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web, as doth […]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs No matter what life you lead the virgin is a lovely number: cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper, arms and […]

Some Foreign Letters I knew you forever and you were always old, soft white lady of my heart. Surely you would scold me for sitting up […]

Star-Nosed Mole Mole, angel-dog of the pit, digging six miles a night, what’s up with you in your sooty suit, where’s your kitchen at? I find […]