"In the Time of the Virus" (video)

"Barn Cat Super-Highway"

Shrieking winds
Rustle fine hairs
Here below
As I peer out
  through stone gaps
Anxiously.

That do-nothing poet
  who lives upstairs . .
                           Put down your damn pipe!
So we can hear the
KRISH, KRESH, KRISH
Of snow shovel
Clearing pathways . .
                                    access to mice
                                          for my
                                              . . shivering family.

February 24, 2020


Selected for display in PoemTown St. Johnsbury 2020. As read live on Facebook by Anne Campbell, organizer, on April 13, 2020.

READING: 2017 PoemTown - St. Johnsbury, Vermont - April 19, 2017

Art Gallery in St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The author read his narrative poem "The Man Who Gave All the Dreamers in Baseball Land Bigger Dreams to Dream" in the Art Gallery at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 — as part of the 2017 PoemTown activities.

He shared podium with such incomparable poetesses as Alice Burnham, Louise Rader, and Veer Frost. Joe Godwin read 85 of his newer "ortzels".

READING: 2017 PoemTown - St. Johnsbury, Vermont - April 12, 2017

Gallery at St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The author read four poems in the Gallery at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 — as part of the 2017 PoemTown activities. He first read one of his sentence poems entitled "Did You Know" — then "Had I But", another sentence poem "When She Came Around Again", and "It Goes On".

Northeast Storyteller readings at this event were done in honor of a member who passed away recently — George Mathon (1945-2017) — from whose books poems were read by other members.

READING: 2017 PoemTown - St. Johnsbury, Vermont - April 5, 2017

Art Gallery in St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The author read the poem that didn't get selected for public posting during National Poetry Month as part of the 2017 PoemTown St. Johnsbury activities entitled "All Along Ompompanoosuc". He also read the poem that was selected for the 2017 PoemCity in Montpelier, Vermont, "I Have Sat Where You Are Now". He finished up with his narrative poem "I Asked the Angels" written in 2001.

The readings took place on April 5, 2017 in the world-famous Art Gallery space at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

"Don't You Ever be Afraid" by Bootsie Daniels

YES, we like that!!

KIRK COUSINS BECOMES OUR HERO, ONCE AGAIN REVIVING HOPES FOR REDSKINS FANS EVERYWHERE:

Kirk Cousins powers Redskins’ rally from down 24 to beat Bucs, 31-30 The Washington Post
Kirk Cousins drives Redskins to late rally over Bucs NFL.com
Washington QB Kirk Cousins Is Fired Up After 24-Point Comeback vs. Buccaneers Bleacher Report

Sistas on the Case

"We Be Yo Sista!"

"Here's the Damn Deal"

"Donald Trump turns black women into Republicans"

Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson:

“Okay, so it’s a day after the debates and you all know I am mad as hell,” Hardaway began. “Somebody already tried to come for Donald, so I’ve got to come for them.”

“Here’s the damn deal, Megyn Kelly, or Kelly Megyn, whatever your name is: Rosie O’Donnell started that whole foolishness! She was on The View and she was the one who spoke out against Donald and Donald had to come back on her!

“So I don’t know why you’re gonna make this here a part of your forum last night. You know, perhaps you don’t need to be hosting debates! Perhaps — maybe it’s time for us to file Kelly and make her go back to reporting news at the local news! Try Sesame Street! Maybe you should go back and report news for Sesame Street and have a debate with them.”

“You hit below the belt, Kelly. You hit below the belt, girl. But blow on this: leave my man, Donald Trump, the hell alone! If you’ve got something you’re going to tell him, run it by us first! Run it by me first and I’ll let you know if you have permission to come for him!” she said.

“He’s gonna be the next president of the United States when you like it or not, Megyn Kelly or Kelly Megyn or whatever your name is, or not.”

Strength in Unity

America, Meet Carly

They're Back!!!

"A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" by Sonny Bono

Lackawanna Easter Tragedy

“They tie a cross to it every year, the both of them. And after they’re done tying the cross, they stand there and say prayers and they leave.”

Ed Kubilus, caretaker St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Throop

“It is unimaginable to think that a visit of a faithful couple to the grave of loved ones in anticipation of the celebration of Easter could have ended in such a tragic manner. Our thoughts and prayers are with the deceased and his family.”

Bishop Joseph Bambera, Diocese of Scranton

2015 Cabin Fever Follies in Greensboro, VT - Roger Waible Singing "I'm My Own Grandpa"

SEE: June Pichel Cook's review of the 2015 Cabin Fever Follies in the Hardwick Gazette.

This guy's taking things a little seriously . .

"Overtaken"

"111th Place" (Counting "Murder Pits")

"This Is War"