Brand new poem, ode to my favorite art museum…but there’s more Killing Time at the Tate Visiting the Tate Modern For the umpteenth time Like all my London shows Kipping at Luna Simone Taking the tube from Pimlico Hours before soundcheck Always killing time Years flash by like reveries Young – love hope beaming TheContinueContinue reading “Killing Time at the Tate”
Category Archives: Life
Impermanence
Here’s one I started a long time ago and just got around to finishing . Enjoy. Impermanence Visiting my parents I stay in my childhood home Which is nothing like my childhood home In the same way I am nothing like the childhood me Except when I am The house is ravaged by time, withContinueContinue reading “Impermanence”
Bits and Bobs and “The Wave”
Happy September everyone. Been busy working, writing, resisting; hanging with Jude, catching up with old friends across the pond, teaching my boy how to drive a bit and poof, now he’s a sophomore at USN. As the temperature heats up and the water rises, thought I’d share a few bits and bobs of creative stuffContinueContinue reading “Bits and Bobs and “The Wave””
Eclipse
The solar eclipse is coming, Blocking out light for two minutes Turning the world upside down As it did 99 years ago, When chickens went to roost Birds went into nests And the Chicago White Sox Started to think about Conspiring with gamblers To throw the World Series In the current climate, I wonder… WillContinueContinue reading “Eclipse”
Old Soldiers, Grace, and Gordon
Little story for y’all…happy march to you! “I can’t think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don’t like. Everytime I hear a song of his, it’s like I wish it would last forever. ” – Bob Dylan. Yup, Gordon Lightfoot is and was a heavyweight songwriter, a Canadian with ties to the cool Greenwich Village andContinueContinue reading “Old Soldiers, Grace, and Gordon”
Doug Hoekstra 