I wrote this in a coffee shop in Ithaca, NY after wandering the Commons for an hour or two while my daughter and her friend were at a concert … missing the immediate company of my wife. Defecit — A Journey …Incomplete Aware of the warmth of a Spring daya sentiment lacks With both eyes [...]
I. I happen upon a gardenA grapevineFamiliar, unproven II. I see the grapes blossomTendrils outstretched not to meIn propriety I merely watch III. I secretly wish a harvest at my own handsAt that right time that comes without my knowingToo late, yet seeming too soon IV. I feel the wine pressedFor another to drinkYet I [...]
Advertising’s gone awry. Why? Form after formEndlessly my keyboard treadsToward a free box of CheeriosNever reaching the end Submit! Submit!Rules and more rulesEven this poem must be at least 25 words in length
To a friend unknown How many feet have passed my wayadjacent prints on short pathsa name knownthe sound of words exchangedbut with little echo or sustain? As if a shade conjuredreaching to me as a blind mannot knowing what he wantsa common tugging without tensiona burden without weight You are the promisean unknown wish fulfilleda [...]
O most burderened of servantsPlaced to test all in fireTeaching them fearYou are the fence for my sheep Your mask, your namesCreate an opposite reflection of meHated, despisedYou have become the opposite of angelic And yet you are still Messenger I know this task you are givenIs most costly and heavyTo do that which you [...]
sufferage there used to be a moatto separate us goatsbut now the sheep have got the vote they always had the sayupon the end of daybut now insist every game to play so where's a man to goto grunt and scratch down lowwithout etiquettes and courtesies to know? we miss the days of grita break [...]
Lilith O hairless woman!How your clan has abandoned you.You are not like the rest. But one of their seed is within you. To what will flow from deep beneath your ribs?A hairless man, rejected also.He will be unable to place himself fruitfully within any other woman.For he is of you, and your kind alone. In [...]
My … A Poem My God has no nameHe does not fit on a coffe table in a book coverHe does not fit on the wall or on the altarBut He fits in my heart, the unmappable placeMy God has no name My God has no nameHe doesn't wear a name tagHe doesn't wear a [...]
Top Ten Games of 2000by guest writer Steel Bates Here it is! According to renowned computer psychic Swami Hawnki Dori, we have by far the first “Best Games of 2000″ list. This (next) year will show that comebacks and games built on earlier themes will be the big hits. Drum roll, please… Network SolitaireUp to [...]
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Twas the night before Star Warsand all through the flat,no one could sleep– not even the cat. The tickets were boughtfrom a scalper next dayto ensure we could seethat galaxy, far, far away The kids didn't want tobut right on the spotwe made them go peeif they had to or not Popcorn by the barreland [...]
{published in print and online by the Iron Island Preservation Society of Lovejoy, Inc.} ALWAYS THE LADY In some past life, in 'twently-eight or 'twenty-nine,She came to us, a Queen to the East Side With Art-Deco arches and patterns and spirit,The architects wrought her seemingly eternal frame,The birds of heaven still loft there Families gather [...]
A Brief (Pre-)History on Mars From ancient mythology to science fiction in the atomic age, Mars was unknown as little more than a red wanderer in the heavens of Earth. In the early electronic age, Man had taken no steps on Mars, save unmanned landers and crashed satellites, leaving Man with no more than debates [...]
A second look Frumpy, fat, plain, old, brokenShe sees herself Mirrors don’t lieBut telling no truthThey are much more guiltyOf the more grievous sins of omission A second lookMineSees her as such a precious thingIf she were as gentle I would tremble to touchFor fear that a petal would fall Special, subtle, realEach day a [...]