by gsfrnkln | Mar 15, 2026 | Poems, Recent Poems
On a wet night in Mar-a-Lago, the lights of cars In the parking lot are washed clean by the rain. The valets dodge dark puddles, as they run, Keys in hand, toward two Bentleys—the white one Or the black? It doesn’t take long. The clouds Line up above the beach,...
by gsfrnkln | Feb 14, 2026 | Poems, Recent Poems
If the world should end while we are on one of our walks, I won’t complain or use my last minutes to imagine All the places we could have traveled or all the things I wanted us to do together. Instead, I would sit On the pavement or lie back on the grass, and as the...
by gsfrnkln | Dec 18, 2025 | Poems, Recent Poems
He said he didn’t understand why he had cancer. He said he’d been a good man. Fluorescent lights Flickered above the bed. The curtains were Closed even though it was just after lunch. He hadn’t been able to eat anything. His stomach Was bulging, and he was in...
by gsfrnkln | Dec 18, 2025 | Poems, Recent Poems
Each year the buzzards come back to feed, To eat roadkill, dogs and opossums. They stretch the intestines on the grass And crowd in close looking for answers In roadkill, dogs and opossums. By noon, the flesh is speckled with maggots Crowded in close, looking for...
by gsfrnkln | Dec 18, 2025 | Poems, Recent Poems
Mephistopheles and Faustus had been eating roast duck With pancakes and scallions in a Chinese restaurant In Midtown, and after dinner, they’d gone for a walk Up toward Central Park. There was a question Faustus Had wanted to ask for quite a while, but he knew It was...
by gsfrnkln | Dec 13, 2025 | Poems, Recent Poems
For Francisco & Flor Larios This poem is like a train station. Down long staircases, escalators, Are the platforms of coming, going, Of tourists and businessmen, children In strollers, their mothers staring At the steel and glass of the ceiling. Passengers are...
