Poet’s Corner – Lift Your Glass, It’s Christmastime
(Three score Christmas past:I sit with my loves;Some felt;Some seen;Some lost in ether;Some? A dream.Bells of time, knelling:I have [...]
Reading Around
Eshkol Nevo’s The Last Interview – An Absorbing Novel to Digest Slowly
When I receive a book for review, my goal is to post when the book is available for purchase. Oftentimes that’s not possible if I receive [...]
Jake Brigance Returns in John Grisham’s A Time for Mercy
It’s been five years since Mississippi attorney Jake Brigance won a “not guilty” verdict for a Black father, Carl Lee Hailey, who [...]
Marco Belzano’s I’m Staying Here – A Series of Tragedies Doom an Italian Village
The cover of Marco Belzano’s novel, I’m Staying Here, shows a bell tower poking out from a lake. While tourists come to visit what was [...]
Poet’s Corner – The Whole of Life
I stand in heaven with my eyes closed;While dancing with the King:Aromatic as the Cherry Tree;With a breath of new-born spring.I’ve felt [...]
Poet’s Corner – A Painter’s Poem
Lifting the gold off my palette to make way for siennaMy box of colors accompany meThe sun seeps through bluish gray inviting light and [...]
Éric Vuillard’s The War of the Poor – Income Inequality Has a Long History
The disparity in income between the wealthy and working class in America continues to spark debates that will last long after the 2020 [...]
Poet’s Corner – Done
And I do believe, today is that day.Done.Done. Done. Done.Done with the hatersDone with the muteDone with the thoughtlessInsisting [...]
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