Under the 2nd Street Bridge (The George Clark Memorial Bridge) , Louisville, KY. This was designed by Ralph Mojeski and was completed in 1...

  This was back when I still believed going to meetings, secret or otherwise, could change the world: at one such meeting, I once offered up...

  "Sunshine Through the Rain" from Dreams , by Kurosawa (1990) self-knowl·edge /ˈˌself ˈnäləj/ noun noun: self-knowledge understa...

"For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said to her 'Sibyl, what do you wan...

Rereading Bashō is always a pleasure / a great reminder of what made me return to a notion of poetry pared down. The flower itself // the mo...

Back to the desk. Yes, I still have my workstudy. And school to finish. And I have no clue how I'm going to make any money after the fir...

"Opus operatum" translates as "the work wrought." I like that word: wrought.  I haven't generally feel like my poetr...

My dad loved football.  When I tell my story -- the heretofore still short and unfinished long form -- I sometimes begin, in the style of T...

Thunder and rain blot out the odd symphony of airplanes and commerce trains – this baptism not a redemption but a mnemonic. quaint conversat...

Rain today and tomorrow. Some wind now. I don't mind rain or the raggedy yard. I'm making peace with the hole in the roof until the ...

I keep me  in a drawer:  saved for  special occasions   when I can't be  spared the  indignity  of proving,  by some  bureaucratic  stan...

More about Thomas Morris... and the twisted ironies of the place... here . "My nature comes of itself." -T'ao Ch'ien I...

The goats. Boone is the white one. Photo by AHay. It's earlier than I normally write this, but I've got a day ahead of me and I want...

Today would have been Breonna Taylor's 27th birthday. It seems appropriate then, to state unequivocally my support for BLM and the prote...

If I were (still) a betting man, my money would be on the terra firma.  Now that people can get a hair cut and angry anti-maskers feel like ...

Episode 21: a Patreon​ Special! I'm working on a couple of new regular podcast episodes as well as two new PATRONS ONLY episodes, but I ...

Your humble narrator (L)  age almost 3.  This is one of the few digitally archived photos available that prove I ever had a childhood. There...