in my old school
i cross paths with ghosts

a world
still to claim

what did i think
i would hold today

what was i chasing
that i caught

ruinous wind
on a morning so bright



"It is the fate of old third-rate poets like me, who can no longer find a print venue for our work, who have failed in the real world of poetry; it is our doom to slink away with our whipped reps between our legs and come here to the blog-realm where all bad poets my age will end up.."


"The life of Alfred, written in Latin and in Roman character by Asser, was reprinted by Archbishop Parker in Anglo-Saxon letters." --Thomas J*ff*rson


"Little Book, in green and gold,
Thou art thus bedight to hold
Robert Southey's Album Rhymes,
Wrung from him in busy times:
Not a few to his vexation,
By importune application;
Some in half-sarcastic strain,
More against than with the grain;
Other some, he must confess,
Bubbles blown in idleness..."

--South*y

On my victrola- S*pharad: Songs of th* Spanish J*ws.