I went to a small choral music school, Westminster Choir College, during the late 1960s. I enjoyed walking into town leaving the campus and turning right onto Hamilton Street until it became Wiggins. When I passed by Princeton Cemetery, I’d love picking up a stick and running it across the iron fence bars as I… Continue reading Hold Your Breath
Month: January 2022
Theme and Variation on a Pinball Machine in Slow Motion
Rediscovered this relic written when I was a college sophomore, when it seemed we were all writing poetry. The crowded street parts it way as a young boy finds his way through a dreamlike world of games and candy Down warped steps he goes his god to meet a nickel in and then retreat to… Continue reading Theme and Variation on a Pinball Machine in Slow Motion
Venom and Velocity
My mother moved in mysterious ways… My mother had a thing for snakes and tornados. Somewhat similar in shape, one horizontally inclined, and the other displaying vertical superiority dropping from clouds above. My mother knew snakes, the garden variety which lived tucked away in the stone fence of our rural Massachusetts’ home. Tornadoes, on the… Continue reading Venom and Velocity