Poems

  • Horse Open Mic

      Horse Open Mic    Originally uploaded by juggernautco. I teach poetry in classrooms here and again. One engagement I keep every year is to do a Found Poetry session to the kids at Mrs. Duckhorn’s class at Queen of Angels School in Chicago. The kids sent thank you notes. This one combines my presentation…

  • How I Feel Today

    Like a trillion unconscious crocuses, aching against a trillion soily pressure points, winning the war of Spring.

  • Daley Center Chicago: HVAC for the Weary

    I’ve always been attuned to HVAC– Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning— in architecture. the design of a building’s HVAC system can make or break its success, but it seems that too few architects pay much attention to it. Very often you’ll walk into a place that blasts you with hot stale air as soon as…

  • Sun Creeper

    I placed my car in the sun’s way.It didn’t seem to care,and burned the snow using its shadow-tool

  • The Chin of Bart Ross

    I wonder if the apparent murderer of Judge Lefkow’s husband and mother took any succor from the fact that the police sketch that the police are saying was him gave him a more generous jaw than was real. Here’s an excerpt from one of his court filings: Excerpts from court filings in Bart Ross’ decade…