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“In 1976, When She Was Born” [a sonnet by Molly Arden]
Life was dull in 1976.Dad had to read "Ivanhoe" and write a report.Sex was not yet Mom’s favorite sport.The only rhyme that came to mind was "dicks." Mom was somewhere northof the Mass /…
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“Oak Hill, West Virginia” [by Mary Jo Salter)
OAK HILL, WEST VIRGINIA Robert Cooke, 1929-2017 “Great louts are necessaryat funerals,” Julian Barnes wrote in Flaubert’s Parrot,a book I had just read—in fact, it was in the carI’d parked at the cemetery— and so…
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“November” [by Robert Frost]
We saw leaves go to glory,Then almost migratoryGo part way down the lane,And then to end the storyGet beaten down and pastedIn one wild day of rain.We heard " 'Tis Over" roaring.A year of…
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“No Second Try” [by Mary Jo Salter]
Why should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery… W. B. Yeats, “No Second Troy” Why should I blame him that he filled his daysWith mistresses, or that he came home lateTo…
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Remembering Richard Wilbur [by A. E. Stallings]
Eric M. Crawford I am lucky to have a number of memories of Richard Wilbur, who died on October 14. The first time I heard him read was in the mid-90s. I was working…
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Tommy Lasorda, Dodger fan no. 1, on his pal Frank
<<<Today [December 12] is Frank Sinatra's birthday. We should all celebrate because he was a tremendous man who touched many, many lives. He did something for me that I never ever thought possible, and that…
