Continue Reading Art on the Road: Is there a safe place? Three Exhibitions at the California African American Museum and the Benton Museum of Art Pomona College. I write this while in Los Angeles, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection are flying Predator B drones (MQ-9 Reapers) overhead. Israel has…
Continue Reading Short Dispatch from the City of Angels. I am currently staying in L.A. County, some 30 miles from the center of the city. When I visited there yesterday,…
Continue Reading Intermission Expect the occasional postcard – some intermittent posting – during my sojourn to southern California in the coming weeks. I hope there…
Continue Reading Two poetic reminders. The Trees (1967) The trees are coming into leafLike something almost being said;The recent buds relax and spread,Their greenness is a kind of…
Continue Reading Memorial Day 2025. During law school I worked tons of different jobs to save money for my travels. Some of the jobs were advertised, others…
Continue Reading Light at the end of the tunnel. By all reports, it used to be a happy place. A house right next to a “Tunnel of Many Vistas”, an engineering…
Continue Reading Venice Drowning “Enter this sublime corrosion,Venice drowning in emotion.”— Venice Drowning, Duran, Duran The real Venice is not only drowning in ever more frequent and intense…
Continue Reading The next generation of colonizers. Count me among them. At least during the stretch when I was 9 or 10 years old, devouring books about Africa, and…
Continue Reading For these Streets. Must admit, I felt lousy yesterday. Not sure if I am coming down with the crud or if the regular culprits are…
Continue Reading Transcendental Etude. “Poetry is not a resting on the given, but a questing toward what might otherwise be.” – Adrienne Rich A dear friend sent…
