Month: September 2024

I behold the slate-colored juncos landing beneath the feeder, trace the droppings of mice cracking my house open as crickets grieve. Into the evening I step to catch sassafras hands the colors of wild strawberries, dandelions,...

As all the wise and good officialdom of every bank, every government, and much of civil society everywhere, all over our overheated globe, assure us the COVID siege is over; and every government commissions Commissions to write...

As old age encroaches upon my lifestyle, it must be my lifestyle that is to blame. Tumors and cancers are my fault, since I have smoked mega-packs, gorged box-cars of pan-fried bacon, treated fruits and vegetables as traif to be...

I needed something to do. Dark frayed edges intruded inside my morning. My goals became wrapped and hidden from view. Outside the autumn air was warm and sweet, a space to place myself, fuse longing with a spotless sky. I went...

Four o’clock, church bells chime. Below me on the sidewalk pedestrians leave their workplace, move from one building to another. Arms sway back and forth, left and right as people propel themselves forward through the sharp cool...

The city lies before us with its millions of eyes. Some of them dating back to 500 B.C. Others modern as a frail yucca plant blooming just this morning at the side of an intersection. Who would guess, among all the ruins, that...

This is the Greece that never was. Only in Alexandria and in the mind, idealized bodies, vanished glory, flesh that lives in eyes and song. His longing breathes like silk and time wanders from ancient regimes into the present...

I remember the white house on Fourth Street with its fan window in front of the garage and the boy who got run over by the dump truck backing into his bike—my first taste of death. Kindergarten was colored blocks and songs, the...

His life is a flute with conspicuous holes that produce concordant sounds, arpeggios and sometimes dissonance in the night, a full throat of wind blowing across and out the end into the air around that doesn’t expect a world to...