Creek Water and Watermelon

The creek water is so cold it's slushy, shocking my ankles as I wade in.

The creek water is so cold it's slushy, shocking my ankles as I wade in.

In this pre-war lobby, I wait for my friend to drift down from the floors above.

When I retired in 2016 and moved full-time to our Catskills farmhouse, I immediately joined my local library board and Bright Hill Press.

Does one ever truly "become" an artist? I've been drawing and painting since childhood, but I would struggle to pinpoint when I became an artist.

I've loved poetry since fourth grade when Mrs. Holland gave us an assignment to memorize a poem.

In seventeen-ten, when the century was young, the Swart family crossed the ocean.

It represents the time when Melville, sitting in the Seamen's Bethel, infused the character of Ishmael and Father Mapple's sermon with his own reflections.

I wanted to make it easy and not as stressful to discover magazines that truly fit you...

Kicking away the leaves by strutting she's nothing less than Peter Pan.

Dapper and delicate branches bend softly, avoiding the wrath of the city.

I want everyday people, non-poets, those who do not have a PhD to be able to read a ONE ART poem and find some kind of takeaway.

Inaugural Poet Laureate for Onondaga, in Central New York State.