Monthly Archives: January 2025

ER & DJT

Some will look for a way out, an end to history; the woman who swallowed pills,was rushed to the ER with an inked notepinned to her sad, sallow blouse:  DO NOT RESUSCITATE if Donald Trump wins.  That was November, 2016. My doctor-friend … Continue reading

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Hot Damn

If I keep my doors open –propped with a shoe or block – everything pours in  A city licked, hot rage, a pit of immolation, a mess ofhumanity tempted to leap, grieving for lost secrets, trinkets, old diaries, ardencies,hot notes of love … Continue reading

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Play It Again, Sam

Once thought it a white man’s thing –righteous poems lamenting time –when fingertips that steady the fruit knifescrape garlic, soothe kids know truth. Now end of day, end of year silver threads of dusk hover on short hours. Family that made the … Continue reading

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