“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
The American Union is dead. It died sometime in the last 2 weeks or so, smothered by a demented, raging President and his battery of MAGA golems. When he invades Greenland and imposes the Insurrection Act, the funeral service will have ended. There is no going back to normalcy, to moderation, to acceptance. The Republican Party is only a conduit for the transfer of wealth from the State to the […]
read more
Mr. Bell Helps Christine (2024) Repose (2021) His Death (2017) Christine At 96 (2024) Her Hands, Her Voice (2016) Twenty, Yet (2024) With My Father At Cranberry Point (2021) Revolver (2018) She Visits (2021)
read more
Charles: His Photograph (2015) Shoes (2015) This Was the Era of Decorum (2016) My Mother’s Way (2025) The Sergeant Keeps Watch (2021) My Father Contemplates the Atlantic (2025) Christine and Charles Unwind (2024) Watching Secretariat with My Mother (2019) We Who Received the Gift (2021) Christine, Gladys, Elsie (2016)
read more
This is the second iteration of this book. You will find 2 new poems never published in any of my other books and 12 from 2018. However, every one of the older poems has been revised, in many cases essentially rewritten, and I believe made much stronger. Now there are a total of 29. The poems are organized according to the rough chronology of my parents’ lives. The year I […]
read more
