The stone-built villages of England.A cathedral bottled in a pub window.Cows dispersed across fields.Monuments to kings. A man in a moth-eaten suitsees a train off, heading, like […]

  ‘Why she cried’, he knew, ‘he always tried’, she knew All those years had passed them by ‘All her dreams’ he knew, ‘beyond his means’, she knew […]

    There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object […]

  A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals.With wet Koh-i-noors the October rainstrokes what’s left of the naked brain.In this country laid flat for […]

  WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?   WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist, The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, […]

  In such an inexplicable blue, Upon the stonework to embark, The little ship of glowing hue Appears in Alexander Park.   The little lamp, a yellow rose, […]

  I said fate plays a game without a score,and who needs fish if you’ve got caviar?The triumph of the Gothic style would come to passand turn you […]

  Elegy About a year has passed. I’ve returned to the place of the battle, to its birds that have learned their unfolding of wings from a subtle […]

  Here’s a poem celebrating the creativity, hard work, and research of visionaries like Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, and Thomas Edison, who have shaped our world and continue […]