I started this note somewhere in the middle of Chesapeake Bay…staggering upper deck on a ferry named Fantasy, floating towards Foreverville, your arms surrounding me like a memory My chestnut hair was wildly dispersed, September chill on sky-mist stationary,sticky tongue...

  ORIGAMI   What I remember most are your delicate fingers   creasing the edges folding and turning twisting and shaping the everything of anything you touch   into all the different animals of creation   until finally and at last we rest warm in...

 I used to know a girl,until she ran out on me.She taught me to love.A thing I didn't expect to be.I learned to live, to feel againas a child learns the birds and bees.I dreamt of showing her the...

I usually don't. But this time, I did, and I still have the scars to prove it. She slammed the door and walked out of the house. By the time I ran to catch her, she pulled out of the...

Sam returned to the barbershop the next day to finish his uncompleted half haircut.  "Here he is..." I announced playfully as my new favorite client walked through the door. He's got a spring in his step and looks unusually giddy...

A few months ago I moved to a new neighborhood. Of course one of the first things I did was to look for a new barber shop. Getting our hair cut is an important ritual for us men contrary...

Valentine Once More Why don’t you want to be my valentine anymore? You must think I have become somewhat of a bore. Okay, maybe I mumble a little and probably snore.  But you did not have to go and slam shut the door. I...

 My Valentine is miles from hereand February's atmospherehas cloaked the stars.  A snowy shroudengulfs my heart inside a cloud. But through the tundra's ice and snowI feel his warming afterglow,a breath across the vast divideexpelled just as he comes inside my wanton...

Every holiday season, Butterball Turkey Corporation opens their 'hotline' for calls, concerns, and culinary urgencies.  This is an actual account of one such call and the chaos that followed.  The operator works as a full time nurse who volunteers...

     In keeping with celestial charms you took my hand, then arm in arm we feathered fathoms high above into the clouds where we made love.   The angels blushed and gathered round as nude and wet, you laid me down on floating cotton fluffs of mist that...

"You should have told me what you needed, Meg."Sam's rummaging through his present, a new Vetelli leather toiletry case. He examines the straps and buckles. I've fortified the contents with all sorts of goodies; a Bevel shave kit complete...

    I'm sipping Jimmy BeamI see you walking inYou're filling out those jeansthe way that God intends I follow close behindI'm smelling your cologneYou've got my devil mindjust praying you're alone  Make it rain!  Make it rainwhere the sun don't shineBaby, pelt...