Intellectual AIDS (+5)

Academic Immune Deficiency,

the intellect under attack

Those powered to know, ivory towers enthroned,

dialectic—its meaning hijacked

(Bryn Mawr College: January, 2020)

The Double-Edge

Humanities coin two sided,

on the front eternal life

On the back annihilation

—on its edge we balance fright

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

Math Murder

Is science the killer

of intuition

Can feelings so easily

be dispelled

The numbers unchained,

math murder proclaimed

Our souls and our spirits

—to quell

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

The Golden Egg

The world is an oven

we live in

With each scorching,

its temperature grows

Unable to stop,

hands fall off the clock

Left roasting

—goose cooking below

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

The Elephant's Ears

They say to forgive and forget…

in spite of the damage they’ve done

A blessing sublime, someone better than I,

could do both—I though neither one

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

The Nets Are Down

Without rhyme,

the words fade into the mist

Without rhyme,

the verse so begotten

Without rhyme,

all passages blow with the wind

Without rhyme

—so quickly forgotten

(Villanova University: January, 2020)

“Without rhyme, it’s like playing tennis without a net.”

Robert Frost