“Mary’s Lord of Misrule”— tale in verse about John Thorogood, a 16th-century musician in the Courts of Henry VIII and Mary Tudor.
“Late Reflections”—poem
"Introduction" (a rather disorganized assessment of where we are these days)
"Visiting Trustom Pond" (going further afield with a fellow music lover)
"Trustom Frolics" (a little epic poem about simple things)
"Nature’s Wedding Dress" (a poem…
"Gilded Imagination" is about one of my favorite architects, Stanford White (a terribly flawed human being but a genius nevertheless). Few artists have had as great an impact on RI as White who designed countless gorgeous buildings throughout the…
I tried to make the June issue, one that summed up my four-years of confrontation with difficult times for humanity—still proceeding with the Ukraine war which I explore in a one-act play.
A creative writing and journal project. Although my tales are rather fanciful, I have still tried to express what my mind has gone through during the years of Covid-19. I was particularly interested in what estrangement does to us—and in particular…
I am interested in creating imaginative diversions and comments on society as it is evolving during this strange period of the Ukraine war as well as a culture war at home. This is indirectly referred to in this March issue.