Monthly Archives: January 2012

How I Almost Starved In California – a short personal essay

I’m from Noo Yawk.  Where food is food and the pigeons know it.  So for me to lift myself up and stay with friends elsewhere for six weeks…is a terrific sacrifice…culinary-wise.  Unless of course we’re talkin’ Paris, Rome…Singapore.   Uh-uh…this is … Continue reading

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The Tel

Cone shaped rich brown earth sloping sides flat-topped Secrets of Rosetta detritus civilizations past Herculaneum, Ur, Pompei, Stonehenge, Masada Smiling sphynx, ruined silent monuments Gods smirking, watching modern ants building successive mounds waiting, ravenous worms, devouring yet more treasure  From the  tels and grids … Continue reading

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Secrets and Truth

Secrets black edged with silver old watered silk crumbling to the touch A secret for the sake of one sealed valves resting on the crimson velvet of the heart I don’t care what secrets you harbor mine are also berthed so … Continue reading

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The Mermaid Of My Mind

There’s a mermaid in my mind locked in shadow long unrealized in alpha sleep She reaches for liquid jade white foamy crests yet ever magnetized to the deep My mermaid shimmies, molts only to discover another lovely sheath shining, shingled, … Continue reading

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