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It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. —William Carlos Williams, poet and physician,Sept. 13, 1883–March 4, 1963 ••• Within every problem is a poem,and your … Continue reading →

We in the news business would like to askif you might support us with a small donation.We would not normally make such a request,but these are, as you know, far from normal timse.As newspapers face rising costs and are forcedto … Continue reading →

At 2 a.m. I awaken with a sensationI haven’t had in a week, a rumblyin my tumbly, as Pooh sang, rather than the struggling lowerdigestives healing from infectionchurning painfully. And I rise, think what I might eat,remember the split pea … Continue reading →

As a young musician, I thought Aaron Coplandcomposed the tune, coming as it does a goodway into his “Appalachian Spring,” but there on the stage only a baker’s dozenof musicians and a conductor, a double stringquartet, actually, playing melodies and … Continue reading →

I open the tiny change purseof memory in which coinsjingle like the merriest music, because you livein that happy sound.You were shiny bright like new pennies, whichalso no longer exist,though now and then a sparkling one appears,pressed into my palmby … Continue reading →

(for Clifford) Lying in bed, thinking about the antibioticthat needs taking, trying to figure out what to eat with it that my recoveringinnards will tolerate besides applesauce, I have a rare wish: that he were hereto scramble a plain egg … Continue reading →

As I sat at the stoplight,looking at its outstretched arm, the spindly fingers of a bare treereached for the cloud-streaked blue-gray beyond, a signal thatspring is a coming attraction, and, as if announcing its emergence,other early bloomers have already burst … Continue reading →

1. Three weeks before your tax appointment, drag out last year’s box of bills/receipts/miscellany that’s bound to have pieces of paper needed to accompany… 2. …the stuffed-full file folder of what you imagine might be write-offable/reportable for your Super Tax … Continue reading →

Clearly, I have taken colonsfor granted for far too long:both kinds. For one, the sweet little pieceof punctuation that sets upa list or example. (Digression: How many timesdid I repeat that to studentswho were likely to never use one? And … Continue reading →

May my heart unfold its pinkpetals like the first floweringplum blossoms of the season, unabashed, unafraid of whatmight come to jostle or dislodge.Let the sparkling hearts in the center pop up eagerly,hoping to attract early beesawakening from winter, ready to … Continue reading →