Visited Philly over the weekend (a foggy Friday with tolling bells & a sunny brisk Saturday) and had wonderful walks through the Old City & out the parkway to the art museum where I recited (on the steps) a poem I wrote there in 1973 … Read More →
Monthly Archives: January 2012
windskin for Yoko Ono
I loved Yoko Ono before John Lennon did. I read about her in the school library in 1965 in a Time magazine waiting for the elementary school bus to take me home (I lived way out the woods and though in high school the bus … Read More →
The Monkey at 9th And C
I’m not exactly sure when the monkey appeared on my apartment building’s wall. I look at it every day when I’m coming and going. No one has desecrated it just like Chico’s rattlesnake spray-painted on the sidewalk a block away. People walk by it but … Read More →
Taking Down the Wreath
Light several candles and notice that each candle’s flame is different, like individuals, all flame but none the same. All we can do is flicker and whatever fears and doubts we carry cannot stop us, but merely go along, as we offer the light we … Read More →