Saturday, October 24, 2020

Imagine All the People




If art nurtures empathy, maybe we should all be creating stories and poems and paintings all the time. 

Here's a Halloween story that was published a while back by Imitation Fruit Literary Journal

In this piece, I write from the points of view of two people who are very different from me: The Japanese widow of a music icon and her son. I was inspired by Yoko Ono, but the main character here is fictional. In my imagination, I created a link between me and a woman I’ll never meet, a connection that feels as real as the sidewalks and curbs and trees that run along my street.

Friday, October 23, 2020

For Annamarie




Here's a poem I wrote for my best friend from sixth grade. Many thanks to Randal A. Burd, Jr. for publishing this piece in the August 11, 2020 issue of Sparks of Calliope: A Journal of Poetic Observations.