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The Journey to the West

Though we journey to the West We pray to the East More or less that's the way Each day begins and ends It’s a tale everyone ...

Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day, 2014


It’s not yet June
Yet the lobby brings
Relief from the glare
Of mid-day and the
Fake stone tiles 
Laid down in the hall still
Hold on to night-time’s cool
In their own ersatz way
And I hate to imagine
The utility bills
That will soon be
Heading this way

Thursday, May 1, 2014

The Moment Ere

for Michel


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Today I can almost
Feel an electric charge
In the air with the humidity
So high as the pace of change
Accelerates and the plot
Yet again thickens
To the consistency
Of a rich béchamel
But not yet nor ever
Do I imagine it’s likely
I will come to rue the day
We first met Richard