Fixes

In a room of pregnant women, I want to shout warning, words of preparation for those soon to be born. This is what awaits you, this if you’re lucky, peace on the surface, but down deep, confusion and chaos. You will carve choice after choice out of ice and wood,...

Damage

There is the damage that needs to be fixed  and the unintended damage caused by the fixes.

Poet’s Notebook: Hole in the Ocean . . .

Writing poetry is digging a hole in the ocean, shovelful by shovelful, word by word. ____________________________________________________________ Digging a hole in the ocean with a shovel is impossible.  I know.  I tried it as a kid on the beach at Montauk Point, Long...

Fall Jazz

Improvisation, a trio of oak trees, jamming off-beat-               in the offing season arrhythmic syn       co     pa      tion      syn       co     pa        tion random patterns, dropt acorns on the woodpile, on the rock pile, on the gas grill, snared on grass, a...