Category Archives: Poetry

Leap Into The Charles

September 3, 2016 – 11:34 am

My nephew treaded water in the Charles River. Twenty feet beneath me. Standing on the railroad bridge jumping is not meaningless. Not jumping is meaningless. My nephew shouts from the river, “Jump. It’s a good thing.” Matt was right and I jump off the bridge. And I fall like a stone through the air without […]

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36th Street Crossing

September 3, 2016 – 11:23 am

A train passing through at night. Signals flashing bells a-clanging Drivers impatiently waiting the passage of the caboose. A red light fading into the night. Foto by Jocko Weyland

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The Babbling Brook

January 4, 2016 – 12:20 am

The Babbling Brook Alfred, Lord Tennyson I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by […]

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The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam

September 8, 2015 – 12:25 pm

Persia has existed many times from the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC) to the ill-fated Pahlavi Dynasty in the 20th Century. Its rulers and people reveled in knowledge and beauty. While perusing through my grandmother’s attic in Westbrook, Maine I found THE RUBYIAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM and THE PRINCE OF ISFAHAN. Two weekends ago in the […]

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John Cooper Clarke – National Trust

July 9, 2015 – 3:14 pm
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