Hope in the Well of Angst

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“Hope in the Well of Angst”

Is a poetry book with fifty poems that date back as far as twenty years. They all deal with the insanity of life, death, love, loss and the road.
Laced through it all, the tapestry of my life, is the always present coffee and cigarettes.

My Father’s Ashes

My father died while I was drunk
Funeral missed with a hangover

My sister read a letter I had written
None of it true

Shooting coffee in my veins
26 hour drive

My mother’s house was full
No one mentioned my absence
Angry looks from some
Disdain from others

Quietly I looked at his things
Remembering
Hating all the same

I found his ashes
Placed in an urn my mother chose
I picked it up and left
No one noticed me slip out the back

We went for a drive
Without forced conversation

Ten years later All forgotten
I took my father to New Orleans
His beloved New Orleans
Red beans and rice at Bayona
Beignets at Café D’Monde
A walk through Jackson Square

I drove him to Biloxi
A beach he’d loved
Wild youth and dreams untried
I left him there among the sand
And warm ocean current

I never loved my father
But that day

I did.