Category Archives: Poetry

THE UNFAITHFUL HOUSEWIFE By Fredico Garcia Lorca

March 27, 2018 – 8:34 pm

THE UNFAITHFUL HOUSEWIFE By Fredico Garcia Lorca For Mary Peace Then I led her to the river certain she was still a virgin though she had a husband. The fourth Friday in July, as good as on a promise. The street lights were vanishing and the crickets flaring up. Last bend out of town I […]

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Dante’s Statue in Lincoln Center

August 24, 2017 – 11:28 am

Walking to the Empire Hotel I spotted a badly-lit statue before Lincoln Center. I wandered onto the grass and was surprised to see a plaque for Dante, the legendary poet of The Inferno. The Middle Age Tuscan poet has been credited with the creation of the modern Italian language. I love his description of Satan. […]

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The Cruelest Month Of All

April 2, 2017 – 10:43 am

TS Eliot penned THE WASTELAND after the Great War. This five-part poem is considered one of the greatest works of the 20th Century combing the images of the Holy Grail with Sanskirt legends and Buddhists beliefs, while shifting times, speakers, and locales with the wind of short couplets. The poem opens with the following four […]

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Pissing Oak by Dakota Pollock

February 19, 2017 – 12:15 pm

I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber’s chair Holding a beer mug with deep-cut designs My neck and gut both bent, while in the air A weightless veil of pipe smoke hangs. Like steaming dung within an old dovecote A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my […]

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Full moon over the Greenwich Hills

December 14, 2016 – 8:16 pm
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