Friday, June 28, 2024

Monsoon Coffee - poem

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Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Monsoon Coffee   The old men argue whether we have monsoons Or if our afternoon thunde...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

And the Earth Will Give Up Its...Old Fence Wire - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Percolation of Our Beautiful Green Earth   Like MeeMaw’s aluminum coffee pot The e...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Waiting-Room Art: Same Old Bicycle Leaning Against the Same Old Sunlit Wall - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Waiting-Room Art: Same Old Bicycle Leaning Against the Same Old Sunlit Wall   We’ve al...

The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U. S. Writers - a review

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   The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers by   Lauren Arrington The Poets of Rapallo, Laure...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

From Lonesome Dove: The Hanging of Jake Spoon - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Hanging of Jake Spoon   Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it   M...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

The Fairies Themselves Now Dance Sweet Summer In - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Fairies Themselves Now Dance Sweet Summer In   My work is loving the world. Here the sunflower...

1957 : The Year We All Became Soviets - poem

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  Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   1957: The Year We All Became Soviets   “…we’re going to get science applied to social pro...

If Taylor Swift Were Your Principal - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Do You Miss Your Trapper-Keeper?   This is the middle of June so why Haven’t the back-to-school s...

Old and Unselected Poems - poem

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  Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Old and Unselected Poems   Why do publishers entitle volumes of verse New and Selected...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Somewhere in New Mexico I Tipped a Waitress 25%

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Somewhere in New Mexico I Tipped a Waitress 25%   NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road f...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Mockingbirds at Dusk in a Time of War - poem

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  Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Mockingbirds at Dusk in a Time of War   They might be fighting; they might be he-ing and ...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Petite Bourgeois, Personal, and Self-Indulgent - poem

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   Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Petite Bourgeois, Personal, and Self-Indulgent   I used to admire your poetry. I shouldn't adm...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Little Children are Much Like Dachshund Puppies - rhyming couplet

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Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Little Children are Much Like Dachshund Puppies   With wildly scattered toys the lawn is messed - Lit...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

From Shakespeare: My Spirit is Thine, the Better Part of Me - poem

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    Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   From Shakespeare: My Spirit is Thine, the Better Part of Me   Cf. Shakespeare’s Sonne...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Book Removal Training - poem

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   Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Book Removal Training   The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside t...

A Congressssssional Hearing - poem

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  Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com     A Congressssssional Hearing     “But hiss for hiss return’d with forked tongue”  ...

The God of Children and Blueberries - poem

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  Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The God of Children and Blueberries   For Theo (who is three today) and Nora (who is more than thre...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

A D-Day Reminder to Every Neo-Nazi Oaf, Including Members of Congress and Justices of the Supreme Court

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  Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   A D-Day Reminder to Every Neo-Nazi Oaf   Including Members of Congress And Justices of ...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Shakespeare: Behold a Man - poem

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   Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   Behold a Man   Cf. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 67 & 68   He is a man who needs no oils or scents The...

The Doorkeeper of Notre Dame - doggerel

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  Lawrence Hall HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   The Doorkeeper of Notre Dame   “I pray you remember the porter”   - Macbeth II.iii.2...