(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully, Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales? If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully, Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales? (2)If you’d stood up to your father, when [...]
Pieces of Where and When (Sammelwort in dem Schloss†)
If I take a shred of 1980s time, and clutch it tight (From when optimism shined, and felt no need for second sight); And contain it in the formula, that I’m preparing now, I can climb the trees in modern woods, and never break a bough. Should I snatch a scrap of Paris, clasping firmly [...]
CABARET OF THE CLOUDS
Soft footsteps walk through streets near school, Past yesterday’s townhouses. In each nostalgic molecule Is something, which arouses. Old lessons learned so long ago (Viola, drums or trigon) Resurface, just enough to know: Those tunes aren’t fully bygone. A new sound crashes near the bay, And shakes the stone rotunda. The sky shows nature’s cabaret, [...]
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