Today's Little Ditty

As if I could knock out the Ocean I punched wave after wave — Punched them! As if I could knock out the Ocean with one slow wet swing ...

FORTRESS Whenever Amy came to play, we hid in my bedroom and spent the afternoon in our forts. My closet was the perfect strongh...

…I write her name in my notebook. I’m not sure why. What is it about her eyes, her lips, that makes me think she’s smiling at me even w...

THE AUTOMAT One day, Grandma took me to Manhattan. Just the two of us. Lunch at Horn & Hardart. Up and down the rows of wi...

A PASSING REMARK I was a child of field and truck with fingernails a’la dirt and mud the neighbors had a girlie girl with skin so soft...

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SUMMER TRADITION   Six flags- summer. Waiting- snaking lines. Log flume- straddle the seat. Squealing- splashing every turn. Uh Oh- ...

RED KEDS AND FIREFLIES First one to see the streetlights come on! Knock on wood, Our luck will be good! I bounce about in my new ...

One Bronx Library I used to sit in one Bronx library, on one small chair I hardly even noticed the other people there I'd sit for ...

SISTERS Down in the creek no guppy was safe from our plastic pails or, fingers reading a braille of moss, rocks and clay. Side by si...

TOADY Toady, sure wish I left you where you belong... But you fit perfectly in my small, cupped, hand you felt squishy, and warm, an...

Tumbling With Daddy Daddy taught me tumbling every Sunday morn.     Perfect handstands     straight and tall     Tiger bends—     watc...

Summer Love It was aqua and not blue But for all I knew it was the finest, Most beautiful, Two wheels in the world. Daily I would strea...

LEE BENNETT HOPKINS It's not easy s hining a spotlight on someone like Lee Bennett Hopkins . It's like pointing a f...