The Poetry Path · 72 Poems · 2014–2026
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- For Sara Ellen, Going HomeMay 2026
- The Wisdom of SkiesSeptember 2025
- Inwood CornfieldsAugust 2025
- Looking Skyward at GrandviewApril 2025
- Pistachio's SoloDecember 2024
- The MugNovember 2024
- The Hats of Old MenNovember 2024
- The Weight of WordsNovember 2024
- Untitled (Haiku)July 2024
- The Moonshiner's Last BreathJuly 2024
- Mistaking Myself for my FatherJuly 2024
- JOHNSTOWN'S INDEPENDENCE DAYJuly 2024
- Ode to JohnstownJuly 2024
- Mother Sends a DogNovember 2023
- Johnstown Poets at the BarNovember 2021
- 2020December 2020
- Learning Love from a DogMarch 2020
- Slumber in the ValleyFebruary 2020
- Johnstown Steel MillsDecember 2019
- untitled haiku 43June 2019
- RewindMarch 2018
- MommaMarch 2018
- A Bronx PictureMarch 2018
- UntitledSeptember 2017
- 50 Years with GraceSeptember 2017
- Leaving Mother ChechnyaSeptember 2017
- Celestial TideJune 2016
- Some Thing in the BedDecember 2015
- Blind Man Sleeping at The Great Machipongo Clam ShackDecember 2015
- Thank God for the RainSeptember 2015
- StonesJuly 2015
- TankaDecember 2014
- Dinner at SevenDecember 2014
- Death Passes ByDecember 2014
- The Littering of Souls in WaitingDecember 2014
- Tears for the ChildrenDecember 2014
- Falling Down in the Great HallDecember 2014
- Three Came Before the ErasureDecember 2014
- YosemiteDecember 2014
- ReflectionDecember 2014
- River ShadowsDecember 2014
- Richard CorbanDecember 2014
- Animal ReapersDecember 2014
- Burnt Umber -For my fatherDecember 2014
- Nobody’s HorseDecember 2014
- Underground TaxaDecember 2014
- Flash Flood in BridgmanDecember 2014
- My Father’s WoodsDecember 2014
- The TideDecember 2014
- Cows in the RainDecember 2014
- The OrchestraDecember 2014
- Fly FishingDecember 2014
- Indiana DeerDecember 2014
- SurfacesDecember 2014
- Best FriendsDecember 2014
- HorusDecember 2014
- 1850 – RisingDecember 2014
- God bless the boys who make the noise on the south side of the Pungoteague creekAugust 2014
- What my wife thinks about the American LegionAugust 2014
- Rocky BalboasMarch 2012
- The Boogieman Plays the MarimbaMarch 2012
- Choosing AngelsMarch 2012
- Slipping in the garden.March 2012
- Haiku in AmsterdamSeptember 2011
- Gorgons at the Apollo CaféApril 2011