Category Archives: Poetry

-10 Centigrade

January 23, 2024 – 10:24 am

-10 Centigrade On Myrtle Avenue Me Warm within winter wear Old Sol 93 million miles away Solar waves on my face It’s real wintah I might not be ready For the North Pole But I’m ready For Wintah on Clinton Hill.

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Sub Arctic Cold – Clinton Hill 2004

January 20, 2024 – 11:41 am

-10 Centigrade On Myrtle Avenue Me Warm within winter wear Old Sol 93 million miles away Solar waves on my face It’s real wintah Snow on the ground. Ice on the sidewalk A deep chill in the air. Cold No The sun warm on my face. Happy. Yes. I might not be ready For the […]

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VERMONT WINTAH 1973

January 18, 2024 – 5:47 pm

Vermont Wintah 1973 Montreal buried by blizzards. The temp Minus zero. I was crashing with two New Zealanders Across the street From the Winston Churchill Pub Only forty feet Going out for beer a gamble. Life, death, frozen limbs, or drunk. The snow chest high. More snow everyday More storms on the way Snowbound for […]

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First Snow In New York City 2024

January 18, 2024 – 9:05 am

No snow In New York City. Three years. Not cold neither. Yesterday Snow. Two inches Cold. Not Omaha cold -40. 20 degrees Fahrenheit c Cold. And sunny. The wind cruel cold Fort Greene Park. The snow trampled by thousands and thousands of feets. Each step immortal in the cold. Steps atop steps Like first city […]

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The Soul Of a Summer Stutter

January 7, 2024 – 8:42 pm

mmmmMagic kkkk xxxxx ththth A childhood stutter and stammer slurred my speech. In the 1950s My mouth rebelled against the passage of th and gh. Family and friends failed to decipher my words. My tongue mangled consonants vowels in my mouth. Adults thought me stupid. Schoolmates thought the same. I was beaten by three of […]

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