Feb 22, 2021

February – The Longest Month

Why is it that February, our shortest month, always seems the longest? And this year, as we round toward the first anniversary of the...

Oct 14, 2020

Baby Food – a poem

With both boys home again zooming school, we talk about this corona year and its hardships, and I bore them at dinner recalling my own...

Aug 6, 2020

Meanwhile, Here in Suburban Richmond: an essay

In this morning’s New York Times a summary of the mistakes we’ve made here in the U.S. in coping with the coronavirus, which has put the...

Jul 29, 2020

Antidote: a poem

Confucius say make a ritual in order to attend in order to focus on what is needed to calm enough to get outside the blather between your...

Jul 8, 2020

Love Over Fear? A reflection

When I wrote this poem last fall, using the 5-7-5 syllable haiku formula, I really didn’t have an answer to the question it poses. But...

Jun 25, 2020

Corona in Prison

I’ve been receiving frankly terrifying letters from friends in prison about the malignant neglect that has been causing exploding numbers...

Apr 7, 2020

Spring of 2020: a poem

The neighbor’s cherry tree a mushroom cloud of pink, how lovely this April in the suburbs. Awaken queasy at 3 all our homes afloat on a...

Prose & Verse

Reading my Writing

The Birdman of Central Park - a story

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River Shadows - a poem

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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - a poem

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Reading from The Night Doctor of Richmond - Book People bookshop June 8, 2024

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A poem based on a photograph of kids at Fork Union Baptist Church Sunday School, 1960.

WPFW-FM On the Margin interview with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing The Night Doctor of Richmond