A Book Report using Cliff’s Notes  ( a non-scholarly review)   The Whale filled several hundred pages the one-legged captain harpooned his dream and in the end went overboard with his quest   and then in jest Ishmael told the others to call him finding later on that to be the first line of the […]

The Real Lady   I would love to call  Mary Magdalene  and ask her to lunch to discuss what it was like back then to know Jesus to know redemption to be a woman of earthen means naked to the lust of those same sketchy gentlemen who judged her Wondering why she is at the […]

A Jersey Shore in Ryegate   There were raspberries in that pasture there was a hill from which we could see a couple old Vermont towns   we were the youth of the fifties scrambling through the brush dodging cows that gave us   a puzzled eye chewing cud in docile amusement the herd stared […]

Acres of Barren Ideas   in a quiet booth back of the cafe sat a cup of coffee with fingers twiddling the handle fingers belonging to an old poet   trying to come up with an idea for a great poem   the waitress brought a refill but he gently shooed her away something percolating […]

Dangerous Advice from a Poet Playing a Doctor   freckles are little poems on the face of literature they frolic about cute? doubtful blemishes? not really   and on the nose of inspiration they look good but the melanoma words that mix themselves in may be cancerous   so perhaps stick to short stories they […]