Saturday, February 25, 2012

A Meditation -- and Clinique - for Lent

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Mack Hall mhall46184@aol . om A Meditation – and Clinique – for Lent True, true, the world – it makes no sense at all Clini...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

For the Convenience of Whomever is Compiling the List

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

"And Fly into Egypt"

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com “And Fly into Egypt” Football in all its variants – rugby, association (soccer), American – or...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

War-Metaphor-Catholic-Keyboard-Commando-Guy

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com War-Metaphor-Guy Does keyboard-war-guy truly mean that he Will shoulder rifle, pack, and spares,...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Arms Bazaar

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Arms Bazaar Visiting a traditional arms bazaar in a decaying village in a decaying civiliz...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

A New Moleskine

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com A New Commonplace Book Some say this book is blank, but ‘tis not so: The pages speak unwritten...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Confronted with Etouffe'

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Confronted with Etouffe’ No exoskeletons pollute my taste, For my profoundly English digestion R...

The Wagnerian Glories of a Trash Fire

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Wagnerian Glories of a Trash Fire An orange juice carton writhes in tinted death, Avowals of...

A Mild Cold Front

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com A Mild Cold Front An errant frog’s the only voice to sing The day to sleep in this warm, bluster...

Shakespeare on CD-ROM

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall 46184@aol.com 15 January 1996 Shakespeare on CD-ROM In plastic laminate Ophelia sings While Hamlet broods on m...

The Descriptive Essay

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Descriptive Essay “Describe your favorite space,” he innocently asked, And dutifully, in dou...

Tornado Warning

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com 25 January 2012 Tornado Warning The scanner squawks in protest ‘gainst the sky, Shrilling its ...

Censorpaedia

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com Censorpaedia   Last week three related events occurred: the governments of New Zealand and the ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Beggar at Canterbury Gate

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com The Beggar at Canterbury Gate The beggar sits at Canterbury Gate, Thin, pale, unshaven, sad.   Hi...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

False Spring

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com False Spring No spring is false when warm, sweet sunlight falls Upon the weathered field and woo...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Second Sunday in Ordinary Time   The Infant Samuel lay in the Sanctuary And in the night-watch hea...

Prepositions in 35 Millimeter

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Prepositions in 35millimetre Hyphen-Hyphen Corporation Presents A Snort-Ponsonby Pre...

A Candidate Channels Jesus

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com A Candidate Channels Jesus My Jesus blessed me in a dream last night My Jesus said you are to vote...

Searching for Sight

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Searching for Sight   No one assures you that lenses are green That spectacles are recycled fro...

Registering Humans

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Mack Hall, HSG mhall46184@aol.com Registration S ad refugees, petitioners, lining the walls Of grim, poorly-lit cinder-block hall...