Thank you very much to Pomona Valley Review for publishing two of my poems in their latest issue.

https://pomonavalleyreviewcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/pvr-15.pdf

SHOW ME HOW TO RECONNECT .

No demons found behind trees,
nor on curtains thick and dark. Nothing found within any shadows. 

So where and how did it all go wrong?

The world has shut itself off,
no longer able to offer a song,
but only the rot of once securely linked ropes.

Advancing, all becomes subdued from within.
The disassembly of fairy tales,
and least remembered dreams,
making us indifferent to the memory of things long enjoyed.

I continue to seek input
on how to reconnect all things. Show me how.

SENTIMENTALITY OF A FEW SENSATIONS IN DEATH? .

Do the dead fear the color and scent of a rose?
Perhaps a soft breeze blowing through their spectral figures? 

Do they cringe at the sound of music, of birds,
of the voices of loved ones left behind
as they watch over them?

In truth, they only fear the fade and loss of memory of such things. 

For to believe that the dead do not mourn,
that is the most senseless folly of the living.