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Friday, April 29, 2011

VILLA AVENUE - Feast of the Assumption, 1948

Come and drink (no need for wine), gorge your senses with too much! The strings of lights go on at dusk, swing over booths in on-off puffs of summer breeze that carry scent of frying peppers, cut-up sausage; string-hung gourds of pungent cheese with strangely printed yellow rind. Hear the tick of... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

MARTINSBURG: Through-hikers on the Appalachian Trail take a break

They'd emerged from woods five miles away. Woodsmoke, yes, but something else lingers on their garments as they greedily stock up on Twinkies, Bud, potato chips, ask, "Motel with hot showers? By any chance a pasta place?" Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

A TURNPIKE MEDITATION

The new-car carrier breezed by, arms full of brightly polished dreams, like presents perched on Santa's sleigh to be displayed for those who love them. Not far behind - a junker truck carrying four times the cars, these squashed flat in rusty pies, each carcass going nowhere now. - Sic transit... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

DRIVING RAIN: Nervous on the Turnpike South - a haiku

Semi on my tail! wipers thrash some spray aside - is this my exit? Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 25, 2011

ONE AM - PAINTING THE SET AT ANTRIM THEATER

Except for me, the place is empty - but it's not. An old theater this late at night knows there are ghosts. For decades well-fed audiences, the other half of a one-night love affair-to-be, have buzzed out there, then fell to silence as the lights went down. A young actor paralyzed with fear, nowhere... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

THE MENU'S VERY OLD (We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants, part two*)

Beer, booze, pasta, bread - Ways to save the precious grain. Ingenuity! *Part one ("Starting From Zero") I posted 7/25/10, celebrating 3 other startling triumphs of early man that you and I would never have come up with, even if "stranded on a desert island." Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

AUTUMN'S INVITATION - a haiku

Come drink the local red, savor teabag tang of leaves - winter's weeks away! Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 22, 2011

PLAYDATE

"A good friendship between two 3-year-old boys is indistinguishable from total war." - Me Playdates are a time of tigers. They greet each other cautiously, spill the toys out, laugh and spread them, throw them, find a truck each likes, contest it, howl, and then ignore it. They interact at times so... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

PIGGYBACK POETRY FOR A WISTFUL DAY

When it comes to finding words, there may be some who do it better, float their lines with keener music - but that list is very short.... If I loved you, time and again I would try to say all I want you to know. If I loved you, words wouldn't come in an easy way; round in circles I'd go. Longing to... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

ONE WAY OF MEETING GIRLS AT 60'S SINGALONGS

Hi - you wanna play guitar? It's easy - lemme show you how. Here, you hold it in your lap and then you sit in mine. I make the chords, you strum the strings. Ready? Okay. What let's play? * (Not sure? You can try "Kumbaya" English major? "Greensleeves" works Melting? Why not Johnny Mathis Crazy... Sign in to see full entry.

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