Don’t Linger

Don’t Linger You enter the arena, Catching sight of the plaintiff you Shift your posture, Begin to exaggerate your walk, Longer bouncing steps with Arms swinging, your face Grinning to taunt. The beast in watchful repose, Eyes focused and tracking, Body poised, Belying coiled energy, Wanting to spring and kill, Not right now, Not this … More Don’t Linger

Frightening Factoid

The work being done to promote the Paleo Diet has uncovered a terrible connection between the people of two-and-a-half million years ago and today. Someone, we know not who, took it upon themselves to delve deeper into the familial identities of the bones used to determine the diet of those long ago neighbors with some … More Frightening Factoid

It’s Fair Season. Ergo I Submit this Story.

RAIN ON LEATHER Northampton, Massachusetts in the early Fifties was a small, forgotten city half-way between Boston and upstate New York. Farm land, some industry, now families who have survived the losses of the area and the westward movement of technology and manufacturing. An economic decline began around this time that was tied to the … More It’s Fair Season. Ergo I Submit this Story.

Flying Lesson

I LEARN TO FLY A seabird floats by in the icy air, A motionless contradiction, A confident demonstration, A glider’s bent wings held still, A head casually rotates left to right and back again, A seabird is sliding along with the wind, A seabird lifts me into a world above the ground, My self flies … More Flying Lesson

Yesterday in Rockland

THERE IS A WOMAN There is a woman sitting at a table down the sidewalk from me- She was not there a moment ago, A trickster no doubt, Appearing just a few seconds after she wasn’t there, Clever. One thin denim leg over the other, Sitting straight, perfectly erect, Phone to her ear, Three quarter … More Yesterday in Rockland

Neeley 2

Oh, my glob. Here is another. This one made me roar in support of this powerful person whom I admire beyond sanity. I remember this one. Powerful stuff. Don’t even tell me that millennials can’t think straight. I stand in wonder at Neeley and her like. “When I hear men discuss women’s clothes, or women’s … More Neeley 2