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Camden Street 22 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
“The devil is beating his wife,” my grandmother used to say if the rain fell while the sun was shining. It was always a humid day when the burdened sky could not wait for cloud cover, and the ...
Here I go again … 25 Jul 2013 | 04:49 am
Life gives us many opportunities for “do-overs.” For instance, I think parenthood is an opportunity to redo our childhoods. While some of us repeat mistakes made by our parents, some of us seize the o...
Lock and Key 9 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. Among other restrictions, they take in nothing by mouth from sunrise to sunset. The time of year for the fast changes each cycle b...
Post-Racialism in a World of Niggers and Crackers 30 Jun 2013 | 07:43 pm
I continue to be intrigued by this idea of post racialism and am still trying to figure out exactly what that looks like. Some people are afraid, and rightly so, that post-racialism means that we all ...
illumination 14 May 2013 | 04:14 am
(the rotating earth) clouds raked over the blue sky and one after one are spun into fine white threads (above the strands) a sun defies the eye yet is the source of color is the reason for rain –we ar...
Oh, Very Young (Redux) 14 May 2013 | 03:59 am
Maturity One day, I looked out into sea. The waves were tossing As if they were being blown by an almighty wind, And the sand pulled away from the Edge of the water as if in fear Of being swallowed an...
a poet 30 Apr 2013 | 08:20 pm
i reach in pull it out set it on the table no body armor no plexiglass no breastbone just muscle and flesh and words my heart presented displayed risked humbled exulted demeaned revealed it walks it t...
rockin’ amazement 29 Apr 2013 | 05:19 pm
peace before anything. my ink so hot it burn though the journal, walls tremblin’, rockin’ amazement, the air simmering. I wanna tell you how i feel right now: the sun is sitting in the treetops burnin...
Sidewalk running 28 Apr 2013 | 09:30 pm
Sidewalk-running heart outpaces control, rushing fuzzy flashing past all-night minimart, tomorrow-blinded sweaty-faced stark-eyed kohl, sidewalk running. Heart bouncing off the curb, traffic dodging c...
Wisdom 27 Apr 2013 | 04:21 pm
I’m not a year older, but a year wiser: a quaint phrase that belongs to another century, gone the way of home phones and desktops. The world changes, nothing is safe and not much can be known. Maybe t...
