The movie “Snow Falling on Cedars” Ends with the line, “You have a good heart” Which makes me wonder: How many in society actually have one? We are told far-fetched fairy tales Of an ugly duckling turning...
Read MoreMore horse face, Than the visage of Helen of Troy. More carrot on a stick, Than a teaspoon of sugar. More a race against time, Than a biological clock. More fool’s gold AKA iron pyrite, Than precious 24 carat gold. More...
Read MoreMy mouth is like a gargoyle On a desiccated sun-parched dessert, Hanging on to hope like the hump Of a dromedary camel, looking upwards To find not even a single raincloud, On an empty sky and all I can do Is perform my rain...
Read MoreSe’rov woke suddenly as the daylight slowly died behind the western mountains. The young man had spent the day in restless sleep, bitter visions of the hateful dead haunting his dreams as he awaited the coming night. Startled...
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We drifted toward the dance floor in ones and twos. We found each other—brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, in-laws and cousins—in the midst of all the other happy people gathered for the wedding of Erin and James. We...
Read MoreBecause growing up has its quirks, the boy’s body breaks into blossoms he must manage or be sent to reform school. Becoming a man is a slope of substance. Boys find out there are circle-jerks. How embarrassing to look back and...
Read MoreIn the balmy morning the redbirds flutter the feeder-bars brimming with sunflower seeds: the titmouse’s whistling leads me to narrow my rounds, for I want breakfast and coffee, sounds of purple martins in the lounge of memory’s...
Read MoreSomething inside the copy of Alexander of Macedon, A History interrupted the clean stack of bound leaves of the nearly new book. It still retained a remnant aroma of fresh print against a matte paper finish. The only indication...
Read MoreJanice, if you and I had known then what we know now Would it have made a difference? We knew nothing then, and I suspect Know nothing now. People know nothing, Mostly. But sometimes Somewhere along the way Some are enabled To...
Read MoreI unwittingly began life in the early days of September 1949, my parents subsequently celebrating my birth on May 8, 1950, some nine months later. Definitely, my mother’s pride and joy, I cannot recall much to be unhappy about...
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