Selected Poems
Happy Hour Soduku
All chatter fades from our corner of the bar
focusing on puzzles, in single moment, we make sense.
We reorder chaos over pinot grigio and crab cakes.
Siobhan's hands know labor. Rough fingers twiddle the pencil.
Hair pulled back, one spiral curl bobs with counting
Her eyes smile, starting with twos, observing my watching.
Painted nails wiggle figuring all possibilities, outside the box.
Our relationship, unstressed, is solved ringing her cell phone.
Siobhan speaks with her neanderthal, penciling the final number.
focusing on puzzles, in single moment, we make sense.
We reorder chaos over pinot grigio and crab cakes.
Siobhan's hands know labor. Rough fingers twiddle the pencil.
Hair pulled back, one spiral curl bobs with counting
Her eyes smile, starting with twos, observing my watching.
Painted nails wiggle figuring all possibilities, outside the box.
Our relationship, unstressed, is solved ringing her cell phone.
Siobhan speaks with her neanderthal, penciling the final number.
