As I was growing up I envied other kids who had what I thought were “normal” middle names: James, Thomas, and

Our sense of comfort in existing s… Cannot be denied, and yet There’s always something more out… Just beyond our comfort zones. Do we dare to seek it out?

Your poetry book from 1946 was recently acquired by me at a book fair in Chicago. It appears to have been lightly us… during its first go-round

Everyone will have a best summer o… Even if they won’t know it at the… There will always be the promise o… Even if they will never quite mate… Everyone also has a last summer on…

Rhyme some words or maybe don’t. They’ll make sense unless they won’t

Hey! Today marks 20K! No way!

Your music hasn’t aged a bit, although the rest of us surely hav… Whenever we hear your songs playin… it’s as if 1984 has magically retu… and everything that’s happened sin…

Trump styled himself as “the fucki… Meaning he could do anything he wa… To remain in power, whatever the c… He dispatched an armed mob to our… To overturn a fair election and se…

It’s just a kiss or a shot Leading us to love or war. Which do you prefer? And what are you doing to get there?

In a world where every single mont… Is measured as being the warmest o… It’s not such as bad thing To have a chilly day outside. The unbearable heat will be here

Whenever I see a discarded pencil… and that has happened more than a… I like to pick it up and sharpen i… and then put it to paper because t… There’s always going to be a few m…

A Friday morning brings forth my… For all of the good things in life So when that song plays on the rad… To remind me of music’s soothing c… I sing right along, secure in the…