[tabby title="Poem"] On Stock Exchange, when markets rise,true vintage drinkers, by the glass,from sellers’ cellars, divine wine,drips costly, an expensive sip;though global price paid, poverty,unequal world community -those trampled, not the grapes alone. Divined by use of hazel twigs,the quiver,...

[tabby title="Poem"] New Index of the books now shelvedby legislators fearing texts -except those displayed on the wall;a growing volume into store,fresh bandwidth, unacceptable -a preface of endpaper trails. The place of stories, literature,of challenge, creativity,that stir imagination’s lot;their plot,...

[tabby title="Poem"] Our fellow creatures, widest sense,including primates, human kind,but all in sea or earth, in air,companions, mutual partnership. Each race, genetic tracery,in season, seek off-spring, forward leap,to make their mark, leave legacy,willed imprint, pattern, future type. Vast multitudes we’re...

[tabby title="Poem"] The naïve main character cast,employed and played in every script,both fairy tales, all myths rehearsed -yet we ourselves bear title rôle. Unwary, gullible, or gulled,beguiled by trusting those who dupe;avoiding confrontation, feared -too obvious to be embraced,because we...

[tabby title="Poem"] I’m lured into the water, songof Syrens drawing on, though warnedit’s where the sprites live ’mongst the fins,and currents flow undisciplined. So verse emerges, freer formno crits in swim, advantage ofpoems for fish, amphibians.But will those Syrens let...