Prose

The 2020 Covid lockdown provided a wake-up call. I’ve spent a lifetime hearing stories and living them, too – way past time to start writing them down.

So, like so many old folks during the pandemic, I began to write memoir, stories taken from life.

Memoir seems to tap into a different part of my creative resources than verse. Trauma that verse filters, prose exposes, making it harder for me to produce. But I feel the need to perservere. I hope these pieces continue to find their way to good homes.

Here are links out to some recent bits of memoir available to read online:

• “Allegro,” in Prism & Pen.
• “This Side the Ground,” in Stoneboat Literary Journal.
• “Bats,” in Halfway Down the Stairs