sacrament

He walked

slowly

through the beach sand

his son

tenderly

holding his left arm

his right arm lay

withered

useless

at his side

he tapped his right foot

softly

on the grainy surface

carefully

the way

a soldier looks for

landmines

finally

he reached the

shoreline

his daughter then came

from his right

where she was

playing with her children

reached down

into the ocean

cupped her hand

and poured

some cool water

over his forehead

he took his sons hand

and touched it aginst his lips

at that moment

for the first time

i understood

baptism

A long way from Nazareth

...back from vacation. the'69 Mets were feted` last night at bailout field,of course, in true Mets fashion, the current version lost. Could they actually be expected to do anything else? A real Mets' fan knows this, deep down,there are only a couple of good years per decade,Yengee fans are like billionaires who always want more.More more...its a sickness,expecting to win all the time, its the american neurosis, read now into the religion,american christian,which is simply the gospel of greed and abundance, a long long way from Nazareth.

Smile

Brian Wilsons' back

the abyss allows return

Orpheus smiles

david wright wronged

david wright concussd

the mark of cain on his head

is he disabled?

beach

the sound of the surf

reminds me of childhood

summer days don't end

old days

when i was very young

i would see a blade of grass in between pavement stones and smile

a shock of green or yellow{ if a dandelion accompanied }

it was always hot

(i barely remember winters}

the sky always seemed not blue but hazy the

air smelled of chemicals sweat and something always on fire

it burned your nose

heat that rose in orchestrated waves off the black tar

the empty lot on the corner with the smoke and lava like ground was our Shea stadium

there was a corrugated fence covered in IVy where we imagined road games in wrigley

there we played the game of our lives

each and every day

until our Mothers called us to dinner

Mets redux

Omar Minaya

silent at the trade deadline

blame Adam Rubin