What if all this time I have been seeing things
in the wrong light the rainbows squiggled
in an oiled puddle absent from wrong angle
the grackle attired in an atrabilious funereal
coat of many colors blue and purple the hue
of resurrection the meadow brook carrying
the unrinseable pigment of the sky on its surface
work has been published in 35 magazines, most recently in Little Star where four of his poems appear. He was a member of poetry workshops for 20 years and gives a reading every few years. He has taught Latin and Biblical Greek pro bono for three decades. During the past dozen years, he’s taught 15-20 home-schooled teens the works of Vergil, Catullus, Ovid, and Horace, along with a bit of Sappho.