USA Today reported a Santa Claus shortage story that was picked up by TV news. A combination of COVID-19 fears and actual Santa losses to the pandemic are no joke. Christmas is Scrooge, at last, finding joy and sharing warm feelings. Sorry, Faux News, liberals will be out there saying “Merry Christmas” to one andContinue reading “Fully Present for Christmas”
Category Archives: Poems
The Benefits of Travel
Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette June 4 2021 “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” Leo Buscaglia. I’ve been lucky when it comes to friends and family. A large clan network surrounds us without much notice, yet appears when duty calls. True friends astound us, like found treasureContinue reading “The Benefits of Travel”
Finding the right words
Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette 5/7/2021 My educational trek featured a UMass poetry class. It was a jittery leap. The presiding poet was from Kashmir, and my classmates half the age of yours truly. A welcoming Shahid Ali wrote the King’s English with a clarity we could only aspire to. I’d written poetryContinue reading “Finding the right words”
Acorns
It’s been a good year! I hear their solid punch of earth from on high. Or, a surprising bounce off macadam Where they wait, anxiously, to be opened By Acura tires in a flashy coup de grace. Announcing themselves through foliage, Dislodging the comfortable with minimum Din. “They’re everywhere” she says to no one In particular.Continue reading “Acorns”
The Krypton Kid
–The act of reading occurred,Like creation, in sage steps.. First awareness of selfhoodWas there. Idolatry, beyond Teacher’s axioms and actionWords became rationality. Take comics for instance:Captain Marvel’s, “Shazam!” Superman’s, “Faster than…”In them I invested my youth. In them I found me: grown up.Doing deeds I could not do, Never would do. Before girlsIntruded, icons foughtContinue reading “The Krypton Kid”
His Hours of Gladness
One of the Bryant poems remembers our brother, Jack, who left us in January 2008:
James Francis Cahillane 