Shorter works

The works featured here are either very short pieces of fiction, poems, or prose poems. For short nonfiction works, such as articles, short essays, or blog-type writings, see my Sketchbook.

Prose poems (or "short short stories")

A joke

A man by a window

Waiting for a myth

A welcome fall

My moment on a plank

How did my mother know?

Poems

Unwitting vultures

My sea of memories

Haunted by a word

Grandma’s wallpaper

Briefly I sang

A pleasure garden

A fall

Integration

Permission to complain

The fugitive

A beckoning phone

Nonsense poems

Happy Participation

Salvation

Reaching for the topmost supermarket shelf

Profile of a loud laugh

Don’t hesitate

A use for celery