Pomp and Circumstance

i once thought of life as a play
one's own play
with one's seat center stage for the duration

but now i think that that isn't true
that one's life really is a play
that all the characters one knows are in it
that they are all in the play their entire lives
and     still     that one's one's own main character
but that that character is born and dies
in the middle of the third act

originally published in Transcendant Visions (2012)

Three Dictionary Poems

I free:

     a political of speech

     being able to

     ease

     frankness

II ice:

     damaged

     come motionless

     cover with to preserve

     formal or

     ice cream

III fragile:

     to break

     it

     and staring

from Oedipus' First Lover (2009)