Category: Books & Poetry
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Poetry
Raindrops If kisses were raindrops I’d send you showers If hugs were seconds I’d give you hours If smiles were water I’d send you the sea If love was a person I’d send you me not good enough Why am I not good enough for you? For your love? Sometimes I feel like I’m…
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Night Goggles
When shadows you know step and shine on shadows you don’t, you might see what Vishnu once saw: The creation of all earth, of all life, a dream- bound together in joy and tears, the codas caught frozen in time and left for later, like an old high school yearbook boxed somewhere up in the…
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Aristotle in Aurora & maybe earth is a he after all
By Bruce Goldberg, former member of SDS and Labor Organizer—his take on the shootings at the opening of the Batman Rises movie—and another poem about how humans treat the Earth.. Aristotle in Aurora “The Good is that at which all things aim.” Aristotle A warm midnight in late July; laughter and the zoo-like…
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To June In Lieu of Flowers
In that little house far from the road you made new left casserole and waited while we marched on the induction center and drove all night across the western slope to Grand Junction the day King was killed. I still see you in your long blue denim dress, a frontier wife of the sixties…
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Three Poems
Headline: Lawmaker Destroys Shopping Carts Marge Piercy The homeless make him angry. They’re in the way. He doesn’t find them scenic. How dare they survive on the street, in parks, in alleys, doorways and beaches. Making life even more difficult for those at the end of choices is his answer to their problems.…
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Poetry
CLOUDS Some are white, some gray, others help the sky turn blue. Restless, yet never static, the sky’s most active occupants are a treasured source of beauty Some days are bright and lively, others mope and droop cheerlessly. Nature responds to the moods of clouds. When “Sol”, our source of light and warmth shines, they…
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The Homeless in Detective Fiction
Homelessness has been called the invisible problem in the United States and isn’t often discussed, due to how sensitive the topic is. Even detective fiction, a genre of literature that often tackles uncomfortable subjects, avoids this issue. While Sherlock Holmes may have paid a network of homeless people in London, the private eyes from the…
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Poetry in Public: ‘Spare Change Flash Mob’ Takes Over Downtown Crossing
Just as the clock on the old Filene’s building in Downtown Crossing clanged 12 noon on Saturday, February 8, a small group of people dressed in black lined up on Winter St. and crouched on the ground or on crates saying, “Spare change please . . . spare prayers please . . .” in unison.…
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Three Poems
A Good Man quietly inside of me remembering — always remembering the capon my mother cooked to please the man she loved, a man that came home every night put on his slippers and smoked his pipe they’d sit and chat and watch TV Gunsmoke, Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk and always Dad’s favorite – Edith…
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Street People
Crowds at dusk with better weather here at “The Club, Last Rainbow” some Friday night when out of town folks with lighter arms on shirtsleeve notice taste the smoke among the barbeques in fires of hot stoves by skinny rows of street people listening to my alto sax on the loudspeaker along the waterfront breaking…