Absentia, Memoria, Florida Part Three: Florida It had been 35 years since I'd been to Florida. I didn't enjoy it as a child, too humid, too sticky, worse than summer in NJ, and it rained every day I was there. This trip was very … [Continue reading]
San Francisco
December 14, 2024 by
Fog tumbles over the mountainan avalanche incascading sheets of white. The City lays before me silent,in the late afternoon sun-setting time. Wind rushes byas it plummets into the cityscapesprawled out below. Slowly it succumbs to the avalanche.Fog … [Continue reading]
After Gertrude
December 14, 2024 by
Fog tumbles over the mountain an avalanche in cascading sheets of white. The City lays before me silent, in the late afternoon sun-setting time. Wind rushes by as it plummets into the cityscape sprawled out below. Slowly it … [Continue reading]
As My Mother Lies Dying
July 1, 2021 by
For as long as I can rememberI’ve feared my mother woulddie from dementiaForget everything she’s doneForget her children, her travels,her perseveranceLeaving an abusive marriageRaising children as a single motherMaking a new life of her ownHer … [Continue reading]
Loss
May 31, 2021 by
Grief is fluidand like the ocean it has waves some just wet your feetand some are tsunamis Worst are the sneaker wavesthat come out of nowhereand drag you out to choke and drown in a sea of your own tears ---Dedicated to my friend Sean Reinert … [Continue reading]
Celebration
May 26, 2021 by
Celebration I should be dead by nowbut I refuse.In 1998 I became ~ otherI became ~ positiveTold that I had twentymaybe twenty-five years to live, most of them ill.I stand, I live, I am healthyand I remain defiant.I will live.I will outlive you … [Continue reading]
After Gertrude
May 25, 2021 by
Is it? Was it?Could it be?Bliss,rapture,joy, toys, child, man,death cares not. I just got,got good,got together,forever,eternity,love's prison cell,death sentence, marriage vows,In the halls of just us ball and chainforced labor,children,out of … [Continue reading]
San Francisco
May 25, 2021 by
Fog tumbles over the mountainan avalanche incascading sheets of white. The City lays before me silent,in the late afternoon sun-setting time. Wind rushes by as it plummets into the cityscape sprawled out below. Slowly it succumbs to … [Continue reading]
Going Slow…
September 9, 2012 by
Is not the sort of thing I do willingly, unless I'm on vacation. But now, thanks to an accident while on vacation, I'm being forced to rest, stay off my feet, and go very slowly. I'm able to work, but even that is much slower than usual. I broke … [Continue reading]
