The Reason for Rain

There must be some reason that I always run into D when tired or emotionally exhausted, usually on the T after a long evening turned night at the library. Most Saturday mornings I rush to my writers’ group before zooming toward errands then to the library or bookstore to write, edit, or perform other necessary [...]

September Poems

Chilling with Longfellow
If a body meet a body
in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
that’s probably not a good thing.
But coyotes aren’t a big threat
regardless of the springing dash
of a tan jackrabbit into bushy cover,
making a break right before
Longfellow’s crypt looms up to the left
of the leafy-lined Indian Ridge Path.
Dead men don’t care what I wear
or how much I [...]

Featured Reader Next Tuesday

I will be reading as part of the feature next Tuesday in Cambridge from Bagels with the Bards No. 3.  This is my writing community’s anthology, and there will be approximately 25 of us 50 Bards, each reading his or her own poem and possibly that of a missing comrade in pens.  If our Saturday [...]

Open-mic at Poetry Reading in Newton

Tomorrow, Sept. 9:
Newton Free Library 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre.
 Check MBTA website–never been there via T, but some friends have. 
I’m going mostly to see the phenomenal Michael Mack, but I’ll be reading
from my book-to-be at the open mic.

Tom Brady

I’m trying really hard to keep my freaked-out football fan-o-mania to myself.  But we are dooomed.  Doomed!
And the poor thing.  Man, that looked painful!  Did they have to re-play, re-play, re-play it on the news from every flippin’ angle?  Torture.
Thank God for Randy Moss!