Category Archives: Poetry

The Smell of the Old

April 7, 2024 – 7:51 am

One night I asked Alex “Do I smell old.” Sniff. “No.” She had a cold.

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Le Ville de Gris

April 5, 2024 – 8:31 am

“Paris, as everyone knows, is pre-eminently a gray city. I mention it because, in the realm of watercolor, American painters use this made-to-order gray excessively and obsessively. In France the range of grays is seemingly infinite; here the very effect of gray is lost.” Henry Miller – Quiet Days In Clichy. I recalled walking On […]

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LAZARUS II – POETRY ON SALE

March 28, 2024 – 4:42 pm

LAZURUS II BY PETER NOLAN SMITH FOTOS BY SHANNON GREER, RAOUL OLLMAN, AND FX TIMONEY PUBLISHED BY MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2024 Nearing Christmas 2022 I was experiencing liver failure. At 69 my chances for a transplant were slim, however early on Yulemas Weill-Cornell called to say come in, “We have a liver for you.” I packed […]

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A Wet March Saturday

March 23, 2024 – 4:58 pm

Saturday March 23 Snow up north of Albany Slush on Warren Street In Hudson And the hard rain Done in Brooklyn Fingertips feel like winter Toes warm in good boots The streets shed of people Awaiting Tomorrow’s Warm Palm Sunday.

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December 16, 1978 – East Village – Journal

March 23, 2024 – 8:59 am

A Pleasant Paradise 1963 Snipers murdered JFK 1968 A sniper kills Malcolm Luther King. Gunmen assassinate Malcolm X and RFK Out leaders dying before their time Before their replacements Richard Nixon betrayed the USA But kept coming back The Messiah of the Silent Majority Why did you live? When so many others died. Almost sixty […]

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