Frankenberry's Attic

A new dVerse poets prompt of cherry blossoms She smelled of cherry blossoms in our walks to a point of hanging in her wake “Hey, what are you doing? Keep up” “Sorry” I would say but still keeping a half step behind claiming whatever might mind for that halted step and scent carried my way… Continue reading

So Then Sunday From back in early December. To R.E.M.’s “Don’t Go Back To Rockville” Another tune that says stuff ////////////////////////////////////////// Don’t Go Back To Trumpville Looking at old hell a new time Wonderin’ what we’ve done to be so cursed In the possibility that The Orange Devil could usher somethin’ worse Only this time… Continue reading

So my “new” not new but still new enough to me new car, a 2013 Nissan Juke, has a few bells and whistles that BB, my pretty recently totaled 2008 Toyota Scion XB, didn’t have though it does share a few old tootles with BB that I was lucky enough to come across, quite by… Continue reading

A newly revised part two to something I wrote a while back about seeing the “Angel of Death” in the middle of route 9 in Poughkeepsie, a post that is visited again and again by readers here (actually now my most viewed post since I wrote it a few Springs ago)  which is just waaaay… Continue reading

For Dverse Poets and a “Poets Leaping” prompt which you can find here. I wrote this back in January just after the new year and with the prompt being (well one of three possible ways to go) to write a poem using the word or concept of leaping I thought of this and the “leaping”… Continue reading

A year or so ago an old WVU friend, Rob, posted on Facebook a little minute of him just pluckin’ away on guitar, a quick instrumental, and, on hearing it, I thought “Heck, I could, should, write a few words to this” So I did. Came out kinda nice. It was short, just that minute… Continue reading