Entries from November 2008

November 30, 2008

What’s His Name?

What’s his name?
You know the guy—
Wears a green coat
Always in black sneakers
Hair out to here.
Come on,
You gotta help me
This guy he owes me
The one with the big nose
Kinda buck teeth
Little bit of a lisp,
Used to hang on the Common,
Skateboard & boom box
CD’s in a CVS bag
Filthy fingernails
Bopping his head
Like a bobble head doll
A real [...]

November 29, 2008

Sand Sandwiches: A Fine Day at the Beach

The sky covered in a blanket of blue bruised clouds.
A beach above me. Over the horizon.
Blocking the sun,
Enough to take the sweat off the skin,
To threaten a chill as the sun sinks,
A long walk through the deer park,
Where through thick brush the white tail deer skitter in a line led by the youngest followed by [...]

November 25, 2008

Change in Direction-Random Walks on Slippery Slopes

Not sure what I’ll write here. But as a novelist, story writer, poet, essayist, editor and book doctor, and anthropologist…and just a guy with access to the blogosphere whatever that is.
Thought…I’ll just do some occasional things here…on whatever suits my fancy?
My fancy? I think for now, Difficult People, the story collection is back in the [...]