Category Archives: poetry

a small sermon-poem

Posted on July 26, 2011 by dichroic

I don’t often get to sermonizing, and I don’t want to inflict it on y’all, but I just want to say it if only for myself. Hence the cut tag. I am quoting the New Testament liberally, even though it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Leave a comment

Revere, redux

Posted on June 6, 2011 by dichroic

Listen, my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five Apparently few are now alive Who have studied that famous day and year. How lucky we were, in those … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Leave a comment

this is complicated

Posted on May 30, 2011 by dichroic

It must be summer, because I don’t have a normal work week for about the next month. Let’s see …. this week is a three-day week, because we have Thursday and Friday off for Ascension Day. Next week there’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in daily updates, poetry | Leave a comment

how odd.

Posted on January 17, 2011 by dichroic

I just learned that my latest poem (sorry, I won’t post it here unless I decide not to submit it anywhere) shares not only a title but also some story and even some of the themes as a book by … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | 1 Comment

Just in time for the last candle of Chanukah….

Posted on December 8, 2010 by dichroic

… comes this year’s Chanukah poem. I guess every writer of any kind has a few themes they return to: mine are the moon, the water, and flames kindled in the dark of winter. (Here are a few older ones.) … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Leave a comment

of semi-famous women

Posted on October 27, 2010 by dichroic

I’ve been thinking yesterday. You know what would be fun? Creating a chapbook of poems in the voices of women who didn’t get to speak for themselves or who should be better known than they are. I already have the … Continue reading →

Posted in books, poetry | Leave a comment

one fish, two fish, red fish, little tiny fish

Posted on August 27, 2010 by dichroic

As bloggers go, I am a very small fish – I hardly ever get much attention, rarely more than a couple of comments per post. In general I don’t mind; it means that people respond when they’re been really interested … Continue reading →

Posted in daily updates, knitting, poetry | 2 Comments

expand my horizons

Posted on August 12, 2010 by dichroic

I’ve seen lots of discussions on these lines about fiction, but who are some of the best poets of color writing today in English? (Note: I was going to say that you can skip mentioning some of the excellent poets … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | 1 Comment

stress: the blacklung of the new fey

Posted on July 21, 2010 by dichroic

Her highness of Elfland was losing her hair – the news was in all of the papers. Her Royal Coiffeuse, she of world-famous flair had taken to bed with the vapors. Consultants were summoned from all through the land, the … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | 1 Comment

for friends

Posted on June 27, 2010 by dichroic

Two recent poems written for two very different friends – an old desert poet I know online and whose work I love, and the girl who sat next to me in seventh grade homeroom who has grown up into a … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | 1 Comment