Note: these poems (and recent short stories) were written as "homework"
for a course
I took in creative writing. Inasmuch that they have literary merit
I dedicate them to my teacher, Babo Kamel. Taking the course obliged me
to write on subjects I would not normally choose and to
use forms of poetry I had not tried before.
Some the subjects are memorials to my adored, recently deceased, Anita
AUBADE
(SUNRISE IN THE EVERGLADES)
(SUNRISE NEAR GRAND CANYON VILLAGE
(SUNRISE ON HALEAKALA)
RAT-TAT-TAT
(LE SPAT MONDIAL)
PANTOUM
THE KISS
DER KUSS
ASHQELON
PEONY
HAIKUs
(BROKEN AND REASSEMBLED)
SNARK
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
AMACORD
(IO MI RICORDO )
(I REMEMBER)
DRUNK