First day
Waking up with the memory of fireworks, my thoughts go to the troubled year stretching before us. So many days when matters may turn from bad to worse, so many […]
Category Archives: poetry
Meatballs (my secret)
Making meatballs yourself is not very hardhalf of the meat should be pork for the lardand half should be beef, both ground up wellfive hundred grams total, that’s all I […]
Fragrance of snow
Winter-dusk, aglowtangerine yawnspilling on snowcovering lawns: in windows againcandles are litshowing the laneswhom it befit finding our homecomforting kissafter we’ve roamedrecover what’s missed Fragrance of snowindefinable, knownbut still it’s howtogether […]
Remember, remember
Deep in Decemberclose to the edgeof the darkest dayand endless nights, remember, my friend,remember one single candlecan not be ignored, as a lighthouse, a beaconit leads you back homethrough winterthrough […]
Mozart, jazzed
Going off to bed withMozartjazzed with Benny’sclarinet, my mother’s record,lullaby of early teens,joyful, happy and warm,as after stringshis clarinettakes lead,so my thoughtsmay wanderinto dreamsand back againagain, againforgetting schoolyard bulliesas I’m […]
