Monthly Archives: August 2010
Pray For Surf (Part III)
CAST LIST Now the stage lightens again, perhaps it is brighter than before. Another rumble is heard. Dark again, then light only on the plateau. Dad enters, shell-shocked. Mom rushes to him, grabbing the stick with toast and offering it. … Continue reading
Filed under Play
Pray For Surf (Part II)
CAST LIST …to re-cap, tourist #1 has just thrown a camera and hit a girl in the head… She is Hispanic, about twelve or thirteen. The wailing grows louder as she approaches the tourists. They freeze in surprise. Now a … Continue reading
Filed under Play
PRAY FOR SURF (Part 1)
CAST LIST The lights come up on a frieze of the Mojave Desert, a repetition of creosote and Joshua trees. It’s sunrise. Two derelicts (male and female) are asleep on the sand. As the sun climbs, they stir and immediately … Continue reading
Filed under Play
Today and Breast-Stroke
Today Today my eyes close in the sun, Sealed in the bulb, the lava-glow beneath. ‘Avoid the sun’s gaze’ – avoid The filament, invisible drop. Squint’s aggravation splits in needles, Cells overlapping in leafy prisms, Tracing paper bearing its scars, … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
Picture of a Mother’s Son
Today I am sixty. This morning, a fading black and white picture reaches out at me as I stiffly scuffle down the hall to our bedroom, cup of black coffee in hand, to help my wife make the bed. The … Continue reading
Barbara
I’ve never heard of a person with such a keen ear for music Barbara was a mezzo-soprano who never sung in public like a miff in a itinerant down pour she cried for me on special occasions not during Holidays … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
