Essays

     ˇ Love Song for the Wind
     ˇ Staring into the Sun: a Wedding Story

     ˇ Birthday at Niagara Falls
    
ˇ Cobblestones for Civil Rights
     ˇ The Peacekeeper

     ˇ How Sweet the Sound
     ˇ The Flying Tiger
     ˇ Pvt. Allen Cole, USMC

     ˇ
Hymn for a Battling Bastard of Bastogne

 

Sketches (and other bits)

     ˇ The Recognition: a Vignette
     ˇ Willie Played the Boogie
    
ˇ Mrs. Cannon's Tip (a small short story)
     ˇ Stuckey's: a Fatherhood Moment

 

Selected writings for The Easton Press

    ˇ Introduction to The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
    
ˇ Introduction to The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
    
ˇ Publisher's Preface for Dracula by Bram Stoker
    
ˇ Publisher's Preface for The Poetry of Robert Frost
    
ˇ Publisher's Preface for Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
    ˇ Collector's Notes for The Book of Five Rings by Musashi

 

Poetry  

     ˇ The Forest Dance     
    
ˇ Ode to the West Prong
        of the Little Pigeon River

     ˇ The Handler

     ˇ
 Home to Beauvoir
    
ˇ The Mornings
     ˇ
Departing
     ˇ
Possessions
     ˇ
Along the Path
     ˇ Shorted
    
ˇ Love Poem, 1943
     ˇ Breathing
     ˇ Pocket Photo
    
ˇ Ceaseless Past
     ˇ Tuning

 


The Porch is by design a casual forum in which to share writing with friends and colleagues. Some of the writings have been published elsewhere, and some are excerpts or sketches from notebooks. Most are still in workshop status, and being posted on the Porch should not be confused with being "published."