A Brief Note
Art, you’ll find my salt and peppered heart in a covered dish on the kitchen counter next to the stove. It’s been soaked all day in your savory love. Pop it in and bake it at three fifty for half… Read more ›
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A Famous Student
Yes, I remember Hannibal. A voracious reader with a huge appetite for learning. Devoured everything he could get his hands on. We differed just once and only because he had a bone to pick. He ate his heart out when… Read more ›
Class of ’63
He’s searching for a pair of sea-green eyes, a strand of streaked blond hair, the full lips he hungrily kissed by the lake in Central Park some fifty years ago. It all comes back, impromptu concerts on the… Read more ›
For Our Former Financial Advisor
I should write this in red ink like the losses in the quarterly statements we blithely ignored what were you thinking when you whisked us away on a two-year Carnival cruise in treacherous seas of wild speculation, the china… Read more ›
Access Denied
She claims to know my heart’s desire better than my heart. Welcome back, she says in her manufactured voice, we have suggestions for you: a wine aerator which helps your Beaujolais to breathe, a dummy’s guide to Quantum Physics, a… Read more ›
Sometimes I Dream a Poem
Sometimes I dream a poem. It rubs its eyes and wakes up with the perfect features of a newborn child. I rock it in my arms and think of a good name. More often, I wrestle with the words like… Read more ›
Why I Got Rid of My Landline
Mr. Herpes, Hertz, Heifetz, excuse me. How is your day going? No need for such language, sir, I am calling to offer you a totally free Caribbean cruise for two. Oh. Allow me to express my deepest feelings for your… Read more ›
A Dream of Flight
From early on I dreamt of flight. By day I was a puny schoolboy, by night a man of steel, cape billowing in full sail, ears ringing with the wind as I soared over toy cars and houses and stores.… Read more ›