The Promise of the Honest Politician

: This is what I am going to ruin. This is what I am going to improve.* *The voters may not be in agreement about which things are ruined and which are improved. This is what makes politics so difficult, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t....

Lunar Landing

I look up at Apollo’s moon with droll psychology. How can a moon that’s walked upon be free of lunacy? 1970 Commemorating the first humans to land and walk on the moon, July 20, 1969, 48 years ago.

City Scape Grid

So many straight lines, vertical, horizontal, streets, walls, wires, an infestation of right angles.. Relief! a sparrow flying crooked over roofs.  

Poetry

“A poem is an emotional-intellectual-physical construct that is meant to touch the heart of the reader, that is meant to be re-experienced by the reader.” Stephen Dobyns I love poetry because poems are polyvalent* & multidimensional: all at once...

A letter to one upon waking:

Cool morning. Immense silence makes its case against the cacophony of the waking day. The squirrels are mounting an offense against sobriety and solemnity. They dart among trees, race and chase, flouncing their luxurious rodent tails through the undergrowth. The sun...