Author Archives: Ken Greenman

… so, of course, it’s time for new breaks so’s I don’t keep rollin’ on whenever I try to stop. Maybe I need new wipers so’s I can see clearly through the raindrops and bug gut streaks on the windshield. … Continue reading →

All this time, we’ve been writing our history – going in the wrong direction! The Hawaiians got here first, from the Great Western Sea and they followed the currents of the rivers and lakes all the way to the mystery … Continue reading →

At the center of the soul of the universe – is a place of peace and love. To recreate that place, that peace, that love, to re-memorialize it in the old meaning of that word, is to re-participate in it, … Continue reading →

(Not to be construed as a poem in any way. Just a meandering about an important issue.) Well, we have….Everything and Nothing. We have to lose: …Our assumption that gender definitions and roles are fixed and ought to be so. … Continue reading →

The Neuse River and Footloose Creek cross the southeast border of tide water Virginia into North Carolina, creating a confluence with the Lumber River which meanders south and east to meet the Cape Fear River Basin in the marshlands north … Continue reading →

When I consider my senescence and my built in obsolescence, I find there are legions of bad habits I must eliminate from my existence. Like when I must surpress my… LUST!!! for a second or even forth dessert! My wife … Continue reading →

A lesson a young, freshman girl taught me many years ago: She’d written on a writing prompt I’d devised, “SOMETHING I TOOK FOR GRANTED, WASN’T.” Her final sentence in her cute little story was, “So I learned to take nothing … Continue reading →

…you in your new digs, that old 4-story-walk-up in the Village, searching the popcorn ceiling for the 27th time by a neon-light-lit below. Or a passing taxi, brights on, shimmers across the bumps, jags, creases, edges, flat-smooth-spaces above you. Or … Continue reading →

Oh! God in Heaven! Thou hast set my eyes in front of my face so my vision is forward toward the doomed body of my prey! Thank you Father! For Thou hast created me a predator in my genes! A … Continue reading →

I’m feeling congested in my lungs and head, this my second bout of Covid, 4 vaccinations not withstanding. So I figure this is a good moment to leave some suggestions for when I’m dead. (You know, to avoid the inevitable … Continue reading →