Month: November 2022

I am excited to announce the publication of my newest (fifth) book of poetry, entitle Burn-Out.  The volume of almost 200 pages contains  poetry written during the two years ending August, 2022.  The prompts for this work are the terrible state of the world (war, pestilence, loss of hope)...

A Quantative and Qualitative Analysis of Certain Refrigerator Magnets   “Life sucks and then you die” “Suck” is factually relative as to both its nature and quantity.  What is the base-line against which to measure the life in question?  For example, are we lining up that life against Nat...

This is a shameless teaser.  After the first of the year, you will receive notice of publication of my spy novel.  You will no doubt rush to Amazon and order several copies, one for yourself and one for every friend who is still talking to you.  Recalling that the...

People—that includes you and me—are just like a can of cling peaches or a box of Wheaties sitting on the shelf at the supermarket.  Each of these items has a “best used by” date and each has a pull date.  So do people.   Of course the peach slices,...

I don’t know why I have delayed doing anything with this particular poem; probably because it is more of a ramble without real focus and perhaps not a poem at all so much as a diary entry.  I have, frankly, reduced the text and broken this into two poems,...