Flash Poems

Ethel Merman, Edger Bergen, and Charlie McCarthy

went out one night for a dinner of plank steak.

Charlie was very quiet throughout dinner.

The Eloquence of Absence

In poetry, it's the margin

of the page, the space

between images, thoughts.

In barrooms, the sparkle on glassware.

The Steps Lead Up

Like a tree that's dying

and takes years to fall down,

our neighbor's house now

that the old man is gone who