Original Poem: The Voices in Your Head
Sean MurphyBig thanks to Plum Tree Tavern for publishing two of my poems in their latest...
Aug 4, 1967: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
8/4/1967: It was 55 years ago, today. With any discussion of 1967 (in general) and...
Original Poem: South Loudon Street, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Pretty amazing to share space with the remarkable Diane Seuss (Pulitzer Prize winner, folks) and...
Original Poem: I Want to Write Poems
So, I wrote this poem exactly one year ago, today — and it’s now live,...
Original Fiction: In My Cups
Big thanks to Flash Fiction Magazine for publishing “In My Cups,” a short, sad piece...
Original Poem: After Chester Higgins’s “Bowery Denizen, 1985”
Chester Higgins has been using his extraordinary talents for decades to document America (the cities,...
Boris the Spider: Farewell to a Fop and a Fraud
So many contemporary pols—particularly right wingers—seem to acknowledge that throwing red meat to the tigers...
Original Poem: South Loudoun Street, Mid-Afternoon Saturday
As part of the ever-evolving 1455 adventure, in 2019 I began spending considerable time in...
Original Poem: The Insane Dog in the Alley
This is a sad poem about a sad situation (and one we’re all familiar with,...
The American Cauldron
America has always been a cauldron of inconsistencies; so often in our history we’ve ended...