POEMS, PAGE ONE

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." -Robert Frost

For me, it's more like a tickle in the nose. I know I've got to sneeze, and when I do, out comes the poem. My best poems start as scrawls on restaurant napkins, or on a pocket notepad buried in the glove box of my car. And sometimes, in the shower, when I have no way to write it down.

Here are a few of my poems, starting with Toll Taker 47, which was inspired by an actual moment of serendipity experienced by one of my daughters.

Click the titles below. Be sure to check out my collection of poems in my latest book, Gig at the Amtrak, at "Books & CDS" link above.

"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box." -poet Kenneth Koch

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