I was always a baseball fan, ever since my granddad signed me out of school one day to watch the Baltimore Orioles in the 1973 world series. In junior high, we collected baseball and football cards which I usually bought with my allowance, but as luck would have it, Bill Cooper had trumped me lately, … Continue reading
The place to be is not my town on Halloween when things go down. The Perfect Pumpkin Picker, OCD must leave things just so and less than hallowed objects cast eerie light in evening’s glow. Igor has a way with the ladies and makes all them feel breathless but the guy who’s got it goin’ … Continue reading
They built their cities on the edge of the sea in a time when the sun smoldered long casting shades of fury upon the land torrid heat in the water churned an agonizing glory What comes to the shore in a rage and rushing blast has buried ancient cities and obliterated their past The cadence … Continue reading
The crisp night… spellbinding shutters thrown open courting the cool, night air Alone in Ardley House potions of poison and promise simmer and intercepted are the tagged dreams of death dwellers those little velvet monsters they run, Madam, they hide like cowards on the outer limits of disaster And on that high floating evening wind … Continue reading
Impeccable and pinstriped at the cotton candy machine with an aristocratic turn of the wrist watch check late train flecking a speck of dust off his yellow cuffs He calculates percentage points interest up at the World Bank It’s all about the cult of self French pastries and ruffles on the shirt Papa with the … Continue reading
In a pool of liquid gold evening melts on the horizon a feathered angel swims into the fading light amidst the soft rustle of fall leaves and the gentle flow of melodic water in beautiful torment these waves of sound strike the last golden days now behind her She cranes her head Oh, Beautiful One … Continue reading
If someone had told Greg Taylor that he’d be rewriting the history of Ironic Things Laced with Rock Music lyrics one day, he wouldn’t have taken them seriously. In the early 1980s, he and his band members were enrolled in high school Ag class. Ag being short for Agriculture, of course. As part of the … Continue reading
