Days Gone By
Year end. You knew it would come to this. Out with the old, in with the older still. Days weeks months years: hopes and dreams. Opinions! Organized donors. Stacking the dead on top of...
Monthly Archive: December 2016
Sleep by the Sea
Sleep by the sea. Dream a time of Little Bighorn. Historical signage. Untended grass land. Burial ground. Further the fence. Hills roll. Memory of you. Sleep by the sea. Grassy corridors. Inactive shooters. Historic...
The Garden: State of Limited Access
Once upon a time, yesterday maybe, having taken that journey on “tomorrow’s highway today.” Entry ramp. A means of departure. Tollbooths. Tractor trailers. State troopers. Riled motorists. Jet planes flying low over phragmites. Haste...
Transcript of a Medium’s Message
Last evening was the annual Christmas “Psychic Dinner” down the mountain at the Moon-in-a-Dewdrop Inn. I’ll bet they saw you coming, you say, but we go every year. Think this stuff is all a...
On Labels
Today at a supermarket in the Catskill Mountains I saw a bottle of vegetable juice adorned with remarkable labeling: “100% Juice with Added Ingredients.” What manner of adjective is this percent? I wasn’t totally...