What more can be said? There is a universe of more, of greater! Words are not alone, they are chased,… Read more Words Tell It All

Hayden, Mozart, Berlioz, Monteverdi, Wagner, Mahler, and Schoenberg . . . The masters of orchestration Dreamed words allowing instruments To… Read more Words in Orchestration

Six generations have come and gone Since Grandma explained the difference Between what is and is not art. It has… Read more Word Painting

We seek joy But little is found It is greyness And gloom abounds It hovers over us A vulture circling… Read more We Seek Joy

How can I write words to match? To echo, to hold sway within The wonder that builds with each Stanza… Read more Visions from a Deeper Land

And so as art, all art, we change with the age And thus each age increases its own frame Our… Read more Velocities of Change (A Poetic Essay)

Things seem long to us, Longer than time itself. It is as if there were no end Between Monday and… Read more Time

I can feel it circling, testing my resolve It should know up front before it strikes I am more durable… Read more The Storm Is Coming

We have feelings for each other They are good feelings wonderful feelings as I listen To my favorite music, yes… Read more The Feeling We Have Now

Looking at these shelves of books I realize I have always taken For granted, that each one is Filled with… Read more Simply Words (a Poetic Essay)

Nothing is whole without the other To compare, to interact But interaction elicits change So now it’s not the same… Read more Shouting at the Top of My Mind

There is a ghost that haunts me Stalking me in my library, mischievous I wouldn’t want to exorcize her, shoo… Read more Poetic Ghost

I wrote a story once About a childhood of one It helped explain this imagination That has chased me all… Read more Of Such Things We Dream

The page is bare, but the words are there. I am pushed to write about other things But words intrigue… Read more Like Nabokov

Built two-sided like good and evil Hot and cold, friend or foe The reconstruction is not complete Like Wernicke and… Read more Lateralization

There are few who come near enough Near enough for me to see The nearer they come, the slower Their… Read more Event Horizon

Today I found myself wading in shallow water Choosing books to move from shelves to other Shelves, thinking nothing there… Read more Carefully Looking

Saturated in sweat, shaking Can’t catch enough air in my lungs Heart racing, beating hard The weeds can wait I… Read more Breath of Life