Don’t I Know You from Somewhere?
Don’t I Know You from Somewhere? On a steaming August night, so humid and slick the shirt sticks to shoulders and back, a man in a brown suit hurries up the narrow street and flags a passing taxi. The cab brakes screech and through the open passenger window, the white-haired driver shouts: “Where are you […]
Cadillac Dreaming
Cadillac Dreaming On the morning of my daughter’sbirth my father touched down ina Cadillac – sky-blue and sleek-finned, irreductable, molecularin essence andannounced it had foreverbeen his dream to pilot such a celestial beast on the occasions of his elevation to grandfatherdom.No one believed thisbeatific vision, least of allmy mother, but looking back nowI see the inspiration ofCadillacs in the […]
Sailing on the Danforth
Sailing on the Danforth The west is an ember-billowed glowWhere silver towers dream their dreamsBut here the mist is rolling inAnd corsairs from the evening shoresSail sky-blue boats by Greek cafesWhile drowned men wait in alleyways.And I’m full sail and gliding freeA sailor racing home from seaFull sail and swaggering down the streetThe raw salt […]
Spring Comes Singing like a Troubadour
Spring Comes Singing like a Troubadour “I swear,” says one who knows me well, “when the angels were handing out ‘patience,’ you were lounging behind this shed, drinking Scotch and daydreaming.” Well, this is correct about the garden shed, for it is a fine place to greet the spring as it billows in from the west and illuminates the […]
Star Travelers
Star Travelers We are all star travelers,brief-lived, unknowing,come hurtling through brute timeand boundless span,riding an obscure starwhich has before worlds began coursed the reaches of 100billion stars in all, sailing the far frontiers of a galaxy woven from the trance of giant sun-wheels spinningin fearsome, celestial dance. Our guide and consolation is a transient grace, insisting that all exists for Now, for […]
Let Go of Summer
Let Go of Summer Let go the haunting trill of mourning dove on waking, the hearty jaunt at dawn above the lakeand sun that splashes, darts among the trees. Let go the lazy sizzle of eggs and bacon on the grill, the early dip that chills one’s soul to life,the moments for reflection, let go […]