William John WatkinsSandra

Declining Powers

I used to write these things like Post-it notes, offhanded, effortless, with perfect rhyme and subtle references to obscure quotes that link to lives lived out in other times when we wore other bodies, other names. when nothing of us was as now we seem and yet we loved each other just the same whileContinue reading “Declining Powers”

Kevin Hayter Shows Picasso at The Lincroft Inn

For my wife, Sandra (1942-2013) We hung Picasso’s sketch up on the wall we hung it on a coat hook, all we had for temporary hanging, and although we knew our lifetime’s wages couldn’t buy the like. we hung it like some paint by number trash or the scrawl of someone’s child, framed for aContinue reading “Kevin Hayter Shows Picasso at The Lincroft Inn”