New Beginnings
For Mara The begonia survived the winter wind Smashing its pot on the porch Bits falling down the stairs like a slinky Heading toward the… Read More »New Beginnings
Lenore's collections include "Tap Dancing on the Silverado Trail" (2011) from Finishing Line Press, “Sh’ma Yis’rael” (2007) from Pudding House Publications, and "Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island" (West End Press, 2012). Her writing has won recognition from Poets&Writers (finalist in California Voices contest) and as a finalist for Pablo Neruda Prize, Nimrod International Journal. The Society for Technical Communication has recognized her work regarding Technical Literacy in the schools. All material is copyrighted on this site and cannot be used without the author's permission.
For Mara The begonia survived the winter wind Smashing its pot on the porch Bits falling down the stairs like a slinky Heading toward the… Read More »New Beginnings
I listened to news last night and this morning about the police emptying students from Columbia, CUNY (my alma mater), and UCLA after demonstrations and… Read More »Thoughts about Student Demonstrations
Everyone at my end of the condo thought new tenant might be a homeless squatter. A family of birds could’ve easily made their home nestled… Read More »Peacock in a Condo Parking Lot
Vernon Wolfe stood over six feet tall with salt-and-pepper hair beginning to thin on top and a cleft in his chin where his mother used… Read More »Sneak Peek: Pulp into Paper
Recovering from an end-of-year bout of Covid, a baked potato was the only thing I could stomach. New Years and my birthday had come and… Read More »Potatoes and Crime in Oakland
Iceland territory where everything is frozen in flows across the mountaintops. Sitting on a stack of encyclopedias and gazing at my pocket watch, not caring… Read More »Parasailing Above Cliffs of Snow
Menachem Begin was Dodo’s first cousin. Dodo lived on the ground floor and she and my mother were best friends. Sometimes I babysat her dog… Read More »New Beginning in Israel
I was born in the same year the state of Israel was formed but that’s not exactly the right word— formed is something joined and… Read More »Cease Fire Now
I might have talked about chicken bones at my first state of the city address and riled the whole city. But I’m not a Donald… Read More »Chicken Bones
We live in a bafflement of words like smoke from a fire making eyes tear and throats scratchy only we don’t realize we are being talked to… Read More »Natural Selection