A Family Gathering
The way each face is a slightly different version
of the ones around it,
like different coins of the same currency.
Tito Luis, the nickel, with his broad nose and chiseled cheekbones.
Lolo,
Museum Conversations
Perhaps you’re familiar with Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, the ones that
art
critic Craig Brown (a contemporary of Pollock) called “decorative ‘wallpaper.
[http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/abstractexpressionism/]‘” I
understand the
Why We All Need <i>It’s A Wonderful Life</i>
I’ve watched It’s A Wonderful Life at least once a year for as long as I can
remember, since the days of smallness and girlhood and uninhibited Christmas
anticipation. It is
NAPTIME
I am twin-horned, big-hooved and dewlapped;
also thick-kneed and sway-haunched.
I wander past the couch and slump
as Sleep the Stunbolt Gun
punches metal rod through brindled hide.
Slumber the Anesthetist
ensures that
Chimneys Dark & Spirits Bright
This post was originally published in 2012.
On the eve of Christmas’s reemergence in England,Charles Dickens and Washington
Irving began a correspondence. It’s no secret, especially at this time of