Poems
Poem #28 Why I Chose You
Because your eyes crinkle when you tell a story, And your face opens up into a laugh The way a flower opens to the sun. Because you smell like home….
posted December 3, 2018
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Thanksgiving on Long Island
Our grandmother’s kitchen was neither opulent Nor clean Though the house was, By any account except today’s, A mansion. No matter. We studied the art of Intentional shabbiness Narrowing the…
posted December 3, 2018
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Poem #19-Blue Parka
My winter parka is blue And the ocean is blue But they are not at all the same color. Mozart’s Ave Maria is music As is Public Enemy’s “Fight the…
posted November 24, 2018
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Poem #15 Sulking World Leader
The world leader is sulking in his Parisian hotel room While his colleagues wade in the rain Remembering Europe once set the stage For the deadliest combat in history. The…
posted November 21, 2018
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Poem #17 Milk
We needed milk this morning So I put on my coat and walked to the Zee Mart Assaulted on contact by the smells Of fried chicken, stale gasoline, old…
posted November 20, 2018
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Poem #20-Acrostic
Gentler than we deserve, Reality still shocks with its Adherence to the basic rules of life on This planet. Every body’s trajectory has the same Fulsome approximation, which is…
posted November 20, 2018
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Poem #14 Why I Can’t Enjoy Hitchcock Any More
I was always drawn to the tiny girls. Soshanna wore her hair pulled back, but only the top part Kira Lishka was pale as a white rabbit Karen Average was…
posted November 19, 2018
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Poem #12-Come Gather Round (Really it’s a song, see video)
Woke up this morning with my mind already gone Nothing but bad news on the table It seems so important to have hope in these times But I’m unable, I’m…
posted November 14, 2018
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Poem #13–A Council of Guitars
There’s a muscle in my back Left trapezoid, north of the rhomboid That never relaxes. It’s the muscle that can’t stop grabbing for the guitar. “There, there, there!” I show…
posted November 14, 2018
