At the end of a day

12Jul09

We have a few trees in the courtyard behind our apartment. Two silver maples and a Chinese elm.
Though they are luscious during the summer, they also carry for me the association of seeing them next to the highway on the rare occasions I would leave Manhattan by car many years ago. There—it seemed always to [...]

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Tags: Chinese-elm, towhee

Teak haiku

15May09

Dandelion hair
sits atop his wakened head.
Good morning, my son.

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Perfect

02Apr09

“That’s what I miss,” my friend at work said a couple weeks ago.  I recalled this while driving west on the Mass Pike toward I-84 South.
 
“What’s that?” I had asked, noticing he was reminiscing in a slightly uncharacteristic way.  He was not one to romanticize the past, as I do in almost every post here.
 
“Singing [...]

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Indigestion (re-post)

26Dec08

[Post originally appeared in November, now digitally remastered since some readers missed it after I took it off to edit.]
 
 
When my wife Karen and I would go to Jumbalaya, a Peabody, Massachusetts restaurant that promised a combination of Tex-Mex and Creole food, she always seemed to be smirking.  I should have taken this as an [...]

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rev 21 4

26Nov08

My downstairs neighbor Peter caught me by the arm outside the school yard and said, smiling, “My brothers and I used to beat up on each other all the time!”  He had witnessed moments before, one hundred yards to the west, the sudden and rapid breakdown of a fairly routine and even civil walk to [...]

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