The Spirits of the laws (title stolen from Czeslaw Milosz) A crowd gathers at the edge of a… Read more Three shorts
Chuck Berry tribute
Sunday morning after Sunday night This morning I’m playing Chuck Berry, as we all should. Last evening as… Read more Chuck Berry tribute
Two March Poems
The month of March got ya down? Here are a couple poems to fit the season… * * * Footsteps… Read more Two March Poems
50th Anniversary of Apollo
*********** January 27, 1967 I would have just finished dinner, perhaps leaving a tough bit of salisbury… Read more 50th Anniversary of Apollo
My inauguration poem
The Inauguration Polka I refuse …………….What does it matter if it’s been …………….twenty or twenty-one weeks to mourn… Read more My inauguration poem
My New Year’s Eve poem
Exit Stage Left Tapping a pen out of ink on a desk improvised with a plank spanning an… Read more My New Year’s Eve poem
50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 12 Nov. 11-15, 1966 Walking out to Pad 19, to the waiting Titan II, our Gemini… Read more 50 Years ago: The End of Gemini
Gemini 11: Asleep in space
Fifty years ago… We’re flying over Houston, standing in the open hatch, floating above our seat two days after launch. … Read more Gemini 11: Asleep in space
Back in the poesis again
The relationship between f-stop and depth of field All this anger swirling up from the planet, an… Read more Back in the poesis again
50 years ago: Gemini 10
Gemini 10, John Young and Mike Collins, a standard three-day Gemini mission. Of course none of them are standard… Read more 50 years ago: Gemini 10
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