Monthly Archives: April 2015

Wine Tasting I think I detect cracked leather. I’m pretty sure I smell the cherries from a Shirley Temple my father bought me in 1959, in a bar in Orlando, Florida, and the chlorine from my mother’s bathing cap. And … Continue reading →

Around Us We need some pines to assuage the darkness when it blankets the mind, we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly as a plane’s wing, and a worn bed of needles to pad the rumble that fills … Continue reading →

We Have Come To Be Danced We have come to be danced Not the pretty dance Not the pretty, pretty, pick me, pick me dance But the claw our way back into the belly Of the sacred, sensual animal dance … Continue reading →

Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. … Continue reading →

“sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love” (all the merry little birds are flying in the floating in the very spirits singing in are winging in the blossoming) … Continue reading →

Thursday And if I loved you Wednesday,    Well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday-    So much is true. And why you come complaining    Is more than I can see. I loved you … Continue reading →

Years From Now Although I cannot see your face As you flip through these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing – and I smile. ~ Shel Silverstein