Category Archives: Poetry

Seagulls In The Air

August 23, 2023 – 2:03 am

Age six Summer My best friend and I walked To the end of the McKinley Road On Falmouth Foresides. Portland across the harbor. The color of the water was a Maine blue. Seagulls skated through the cloudless sky. Chaney pulled out darts from his father’s den. He handed me one. I threw it The dart […]

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Goodbye Summer August 19, 2023

August 21, 2023 – 9:37 am

August 19, 2023 This evening in Fort Greene Park the trees changed color from summer green to end of summer green. The sun set earlier than yesterday a sliver moon follows it west to a horizon Beyond Brooklyn’s skyline BBQs burn along Myrtle Avenue Not as many as last weekend. the leaves turn black in […]

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Saturday Afternoon 169 169 Bar East Broadway

August 10, 2023 – 10:19 am

Saturday afternoon Summer. Early The 169 Bar East Broadway Jimmie Smith and his organ On loud. No one here, But Cass and Vince. Bartenders / friends Cass serves a cranberry.soda. Cranberries. In 1969 I raced my VW through the bogs west of Plymouth On Qualludes. I ditched the Beetle in a pond My three friends […]

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My Senior Prom 1970 – Horseneck Beach

August 8, 2023 – 8:16 pm

After my senior prom I drove with my date Pattie Hopkins, A Fontbonne Academy junior A classmate of my sister. I should have been with my girlfriend. Kyla. I had broken up with her At Easter Mass. I was not in the right state of mind. But knew to stay with Kyla was give up […]

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NEXT YEAR ANDROMEDA

August 6, 2023 – 12:54 pm

NEXT YEAR ANDROMEDA In the western desert the night is alive with distant stars. They are our destiny. There is no God. We are the levelers of cities like Hiroshima, Dresden, or Tulsa. Our victims live as running shadows against concrete walls or charred flesh or almost unscathed. ?Now I am become Death, the destroyer […]

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