Bait the Lines

  on course the axis and the allies their ranks are shaping up war is coming one way or another sooner or later i told you so will tell you ...

  lobelia   you look so fine in your tallest blue ballgown  crinolined and suave as the midnight horses steady to pull the golden coach at p...

  a fillet of my childhood above the sawdust  they hung them silver hooked whole sides of beef man chops i called them  everyone laughed som...

  a grain of truth the breath of another pauses  atop of a sand dune’s flow a grain of truth unsettled  in a new direction now it’s all so u...

  a cuckoo thought the cuckoo’s call is a false heart  inside a true heart  the call out of an orphan in that unjust moment  tomorrow is dec...

  canes canes canes all those tall canes along the road of winter’s holiday where once the snow relied upon them to steer the plough now see...

  the arthritic librarian the pain booked on the top shelf of     if only reached by a ladder wrung of words hobbled from the hands that pla...