T L Oberman·Aug 16, 2024suppose it’s there after all, blank and brightAn acrostic arising from her choice after many years treating primary and secondary cancers to stop chemotherapy and accept
T L Oberman·Oct 17, 2017again the mud-moist lips of river scentAn acrostic about mixtures of the 4 elements, but mostly light/fire, or maybe earth, or water, or breath/air…maybe about just one element
T L Oberman·Oct 6, 2017burns supposedly harm only the fleshAn acrostic penned in a beat-up spiral notebook during a hot humid St. Louis summer while courting a far-off friend in distant Sitka.
InPoets UnlimitedbyT L Oberman·Sep 16, 2017long stems make awful arcsAn acrostic sonnet peer, or bookend, to the earlier one written in the confusion of like, love and lust as a younger man