Monday, July 31, 2017

The White House Office of Warfare and Shopping

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The White House Office of Warfare and Shopping Some jets fly off to the wars, carrying the young The...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

The White House Staff and Boys' Choir - a screed, a polemic, an ill-tempered hissy-fit

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The White House Staff & Boys’ Choir Gas-station shades, and identification Dangling from their n...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Heat Advisory - But Whom Does the Heat Advise? - heat-stressed poem of no significance

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Heat Advisory – But Whom Does the Heat Advise? “Heat advisory issued as temps expected to reach tri...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Sarah's Kittens - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Sarah’s Kittens Java and Chai are enjoying a busy day: Learning that refuse bins tumble easily And ...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Dunkirk - column

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Dunkirk Attorney, actor, and historian Joshua Levine has written a scholarly, accessible movie tie-in...

New Moon Over an Old Planet - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com New Moon Over an Old Planet A thin lunette, silver reflecting gold Assumed into its dance among the ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Sarahan Dust - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Saharan Dust The sky is a visitor from Africa Come all the way to the Americas To say hello, and bl...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Ode to the Trumpet - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Ode to the Trumpet The trumpet is a gift of Greece and Rome Blown straight within the palaces of kin...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Dia de Muertos in a Parking Lot - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Dia de Muertos in a Parking Lot 23 July 2017 The big trucks roll along the interstates And bear i...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Does the Point Vanish? Or do We? - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Does the Point Vanish? Or do We? In poetry there is no vanishing point No lines converging in flat ...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Cassandra and Simon - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Cassandra and Simon Rose and Neil eloped to America Mrs. Blossom is forever silent now Mortmain in ...

School is Ratcheting Up and Up and Up - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com School is Ratcheting Up and Up and Up For the next month there is not a newspaper, radio station, or...

The Running of the Bullssss in Pamplona - column

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Mack Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com The Running of the Bullssss in Pamplona If we were to add a few letters, as in “The Running of the B...
Friday, July 21, 2017

A Rainbow Bends toward Eternity - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Rainbow Bends toward Eternity A rainbow bends toward Jerusalem Constantinople too, and holy Rome ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Always Check for Scorpions in Your Boots - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Always Check for Scorpions in Your Boots If in Viet-Nam you enjoyed the right Of taking off your sme...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A Veteran of the Wars - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Veteran of the Wars This old warrior has many tales to tell: He’s sailed among the distant Philipp...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

The Canals on Mars - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Canals on Mars From an allusion by Robert Royal1 Martians spent centuries building canals Ac...
Monday, July 17, 2017

A Little Girl on a Wagon Seat - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Little Girl on a Wagon Seat Of her deep thriftiness, Grandmama Hall Saved every button that passed...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time We are scattered, like the Tribes of Israel Sown not in rejection but a...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

A Carpenter's Hammer - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com A Carpenter’s Hammer A craftsman does not hammer with a hammer - He wields it with surprising subtle...