The Sun in Poetry
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké Still are there wonders of the dark and day: The muted shrilling of shy things at night, So small beneath […]
Poetry
Acrostic Poem
Roaming aroundOur supermarket but neverBuying anything, just alwaysOmnipresent, its teeth areText.
Sun Poem: Death on a Bicycle
Death on a Bicycle If you train on a road bike during the boiling hot summer in Nakajo, Japan,Your most valuable equipment, more than glovesHelmet or spare tire,Is sunglasses. There
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The Sun in Poetry
In Tall Grass Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner —a skull in the tall grass and
Enriched Environment: Patter Songs
I sent my sister a Gilbert and Sullivan parody by Randy Rainbow. It’s the second video below; the original Gilbert and Sullivan song is the first. My sister wrote back,
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The Sun in Poetry
Medusa I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved,—a bell hung ready to strike, Sun and reflection wheeled by. When the
Got My Goat
Acrostic Poem Go quick! Get me anOnion sandwich on moldy rye bread with spiny Artichoke leaves, rancid mayonnaise and perhaps a usedTea bag. Yum! The above poem is completely untruthful,
Teachers College Columbia University: Distinguished Alumni Award
Here I am standing on the stage in the breakfast room at Teachers College Columbia University. Professor Jo Anne Kleifgen, my doctoral dissertation adviser from the 1990s, is reading a
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My Keys to PD
A few years ago, the Parkinson’s Foundation published an online article titled “Improving Brain Function with Exercise, Connectedness and Creativity.” (But it’s no longer on their website…oh-oh…oh, well.) I pasted
The Sun in Poetry: Remembering Frost, #3
My two cats and two visiting birds reenact Frost’s poem, “Two Look at Two.” Two Look at Two Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the
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