Folks I'm still here, it's just that my job has been very hectic lately. We had a catastrophic fire the beginning of May and we're only just now recovering. I am a member of the library recovery team, this has taken a lot of my time. Now that the recovery is well underway, I hope to get back to you all once again. I have dedicated myself to do at ( Read more... )

I wrote thi sseveral months ago about the New Orleans disaster and our government's failure of the victims. I am finally getting the time to get around to posting it ( Read more... )

Remember when Little Egypt danced the hootchi-cootchi ( Read more... )

I saw Walt Whitman ( Read more... )

FOUCAULT’S MAUSOLEUM ( Read more... )

MOON ( Read more... )

SKINWALKERS ( Read more... )

Apologies for not updating for the last couple of months. I was on vacation and when I got back I was overwhelmed with work. My inbox was an avalanche. I also had acquired a case of writer's block. Here is my first effort upon return; it is a work in progress, but I had to give something. I can't NOT WRITE ( Read more... )

Young man stands beneath streetlamp glow ( Read more... )

The Spanish poet Garcia Lorca was strongly influenced by the music and lyricism of the Andalucian Gypsies. One of their most beautiful forms was a song called a "saeta" or "sajeta", an word that means an arrow; it was designed to be both terse and poignant. The following is an attempt at a successful sajeta ( Read more... )