Regret

A personal poem about regret.

Raspberry Tea

Ten Kinds of Crazy

Lily was an accident. That’s what Mom and Dad said, when they broke the news to me and the brothers over second-time-around meatloaf and corn on the cob. An accident, as if they were apologizing for puncturing holes in the inflatable pool with the lawnmower...

leave me not this night alone

My wife has struggled with self harm and bipolar disorder for years this poem was my attempt to express my fears of failing her

the graveyard

in the lost forgotten corners of graveyards over grown tombs lie hidden

the asylum

In the dark of a deserted asylum can you sense the past trapped within its walls?...

Gone with the wind

"DEATH ends LIFE, but it doesn't end a RELATIONSHIP..."

Broken China

One day she won't love you, too.

Winter Hours by Robert Hilles

In his fourteenth book of poetry, Partake, Governor General’s Award winning poet Robert Hilles writes frankly about the death of his younger brother from cancer. He travels to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand to grieve and heal and through these poems we see East meeting West. Partake chronicles the power of family and...