Interminable showers, laced with lye Astringents cascading down fair skin turned pink By heat and scrubbing — The forceful scouring that a wok gets after an overlong stir-fry. No amount of water Or soap Or solvent Can remove the stain Left behind like a the penumbra of light produced by an explosion. Choices were made...
Hope RekindledThis past week has given us more hope for our diseased republic than any other time in 50+ years of paying attention. Observing and participating in a long-overdue peaceful uprising, occupying the streets, feeling the righteous energy of people of all ages, colors, faiths, and wealth (or lack thereof), has…
Clarinetist Glenn Dickson, master of klezmer, has made a solo recording, “Wider Than the Sky,” that’s been on perpetual repeat at our home office. Using over-dubs and electronic digital effects, Dickson fills the aural soundscape with a rich melange of chordal textures supporting the melody. His celebrated virtuosity is subsumed here to long, elegiac musical...
