He told you the secret to poetry,
which was really quite simple:
Tell a story, and tell it well.
Find your way to say it
in simple language
that anyone could understand.
I’ll miss his crooked grin,
his curls ruffled and askew,
the way he hitched his suspenders
while listening with fading ears
to our earnest attempts
to impress him.
The way he would nod
and say, “Good, now rewrite
it a dozen times and
you might have something.”
I will miss that.
resides in San Diego. He brings his varied experiences to life in his poems and
stories of lost loves, lost dreams, and lost fortunes. His poems have appeared in
several anthologies.