Dean : Writing

       General Store--1942

General Store--1942

A Poem by Dean


There is a future. say the magazines,where ice cream cones coast down wet slides, and color rules,where sadness is postponed another day.All the obsce..
       Passover

Passover

A Poem by Dean


Mistitled? Ah, you must get used to this old boy's twisted thinking.
         Voices in the Night

Voices in the Night

A Poem by Dean


They wake me sometimes.Names, nonentitiescome out of the corners like leftover pipe smoke,jerking at my slumber,scratching at the soft circlesI draw a..
         Pathos-Bathos

Pathos-Bathos

A Poem by Dean


These tears work well their Machiavellian craft.They blur my vision, clog my nostrilslike a vice, constrict my voice and finallyconfound my countenanc..
         In Pacem

In Pacem

A Poem by Dean


In PacemWe missed it, Dad__that last embrace that bondsthe blood of menwho always faced into the wind of loveand never knew its source.So arrived the..
       Invitation to the Dance

Invitation to the Dance

A Poem by Dean


It is not the music,for one knows it in the heatthat rises from a cool miasma,sardonic, self-igniting--the one that ravages and never warms,consumes, ..
     To my Love

To my Love

A Poem by Dean


Can there alight so fair a symbolas a butterfly whose flight arrested,stays upon my shoulder just as ifyou sent it there, suggestedthrough an energy d..
     The Curator's Travail

The Curator's Travail

A Poem by Dean


The day presents a journey, waiting to begin,a font of wisdom in a strange new land,each personage a soul to take apart,although one never knew those ..
        Lully, Lullay

Lully, Lullay

A Poem by Dean


Look to the night before the bombers arrived over Bhagdad, starting the first Gulf War
      Gloria in Profundis

Gloria in Profundis

A Poem by Dean


I sensed it in the rockcompressed a thousand feet below.I saw it in the cardboard boxwhere some humanity must breathethe stench of garbage that was on..