Monthly Archives: October 2020

October (written some 40 years ago) In the fall we drift along the tree-lined streets of unfamiliar places. Leaves cover everything: sleepy cars and houses sidewalks and our coats. My son drags his foot beside the curb like a street-cleaner … Continue reading →

Here’s a 6-word memoir: Sweet wife, good kids– I’m rich. (For me, life has been all about a search for a particular non-financial richness, something not measured in mere filthy lucre terms. One can be rich emotionally, mentally, soulfully, and … Continue reading →

I went looking for the out-of-print CD soundtrack which was available in a special limited collectors’ edition (only 3000 issued) back in 2005. This was the 1st time the soundtrack had been performed and newly recorded in its complete form. … Continue reading →

kids and pets (particularly dogs).

In the States, it’s all about the survival of the “American experiment”, their constitution, and their democracy. In Canada, it’s all about getting rid of plastic bags. (Canadians would do well to get themselves acquainted/up to speed with the major … Continue reading →

friend Clint McElwaine. His memorable ballads are available on two CDs: After the Harvest and Gold, the latter on which “Tree Shadows” appears.

by Trevor Hughes, a high school teacher who started out in 1972, like yours truly. The last poem in my UK friend-poet’s moving collection: belongings (2017). Says a lot today in a fall COVID time. (It was originally written about … Continue reading →

This is one of a surfeit of good poems from The Collected Poetry by local poet-friend Gerald St. Maur (aka Gerald S.H. Lock). I had the great pleasure  of responding to both volumes and wrote the Foreword introducing them. I … Continue reading →

I’m going to Graceland Memphis Tennessee I’m going to Graceland Poor boys and pilgrims with families And we are going to Graceland And my travelling companions Are ghosts and empty sockets I’m looking at ghosts and empties But I’ve reason … Continue reading →

and it seems that COVID got inside….. The Continuing Relevance of E.A. Poe His classic plague short story: “The Masque of the Red Death”. Who could have guessed how truly timeless and prophetic this tale would turn out to be? … Continue reading →