1. George Santos is the Anna Sorokin of politics. 2. I just did my first online Zoom poetry reading with a group of dVerse poets from around the world. It was a good experience and the host was wonderful, but it was a little like contra dancing as opposed to free style dance. I love […]
1. Yes, we’ve been watching the Monty Python documentary on Netflix. 2. And with episodes in 6 parts, it really is the Full Monty. 3. Just when I think nothing is happening, something does. 4. Like venison cooking lessons with my 14-year-old grandson who shot his first deer this year. 5. I love to look […]
1. Gavel or grovel? 2. I was sure I was going to see another on camera slap when Kevin McCarthy walked up to Matt Gaetz HERE. 3. “When the North Star of your own faith is becoming obscured, when you feel as if you’re in stormy seas and low visibility, who are the lighthouses? John […]
1. I’m pushing the year to a close, rushing to turn the calendar’s page, to clean the slate and start afresh, to meet the inevitable unknown. 2. I wonder if my line, ‘I don’t ever want an avatar’ will go the same way as ‘I don’t ever want an answering machine,’ which I didn’t want […]
1. I went to put on some chap stick in the dark when going to bed and it turned out to be a glue stick. 2. I told my friend Holly that and she said, “does that mean your lips are sealed?’” 3. I just call it a face mask, but when I posted this […]
1. My friend Chris played two Scrabble games on two Scrabble boards at the same time. 2. Scrabble or scramble? 3. “You are in this time of the interim where everything seems withheld. The path you took to get here has washed out. The way forward is still concealed from you. The old is not […]
1. Waiting in a hospital bay for the doctor to appear from the operating room when your procedure is hours late and you haven’t eaten in 18 hours, is like, but much worse than, waiting for the restaurant waiter to appear at the kitchen door with your food when you’re over-hungry and can think of […]
1. My poet friends Mary, Katherine and I are working on the three-way call-and-response poetry and tea reading we’re thinking of calling “Reveries of the Aging Mind.” 2. Meanwhile, my new poetry collection, Poems from the Dark Room, is available now on Amazon. This is my opus, the last in a trilogy, the mined gems […]
1. Passenger Seat Highway Highlight: Watching the psychedelic display with eyes closed as the sun flashes through the trees on the sides of the road while listening to Jim Hendrix sing Hey Joe. 2. And then there is this. 3. I like tunnels but not bridges, rooms rather than open floor plans, and hills rather […]
1. I gave myself an exercise to write a poem, then I pushed it up the hill. 2. “What wakes me at night / is the thought of everyone / and everyone’s trash / a gold rush / for fool’s gold / and a self-assured notion / that Wall Street is Eden / that we […]
1. Who says “za” for pizza? No one I know, but it’s a word you can use when playing Scrabble. 2. If I Have to Die 3. Today’s poetry was paper trash / Unrequited loves that broke my heart / Teased out lines written in circles / Big ideas that fell flat – From I […]
1. Although my father was 75% Irish with a mother born in County Cork, his paternal grandfather was born in Sweden and stowed away on ship to come to America as young man. A shipmate on the same ship with the surname Redman died on the way and my great grandfather ended up taking his […]
