Poetry

Luck Will Find You is a collection of my poetry available on Amazon at:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4P6174

I've been writing poetry since I was eleven - for almost sixty years. My  poetry has appeared in the Buffalo News "Poetry Page,"  Artvoice, Impractical Cartography, and River Poets Journal, and in Oberon Poetry Magazine.  I won the 1994 Just Buffalo Literary Center "Labor in Literature Award," and the 2008 Just Buffalo Literary Center "Boomdays

Poetry Award."

Fate and Flow

I want a life ice boom

to slow the cold hard facts

that run into the river of my life

there can be a camera on a bank

recording the stalled

crisis and tragedy

computers to monitor

the edge of relief

when good weather is near

karma breaking up in

the lake of destiny

dissolving what could have been

an ice boom in my life

to change disaster into

a huge pool of serendipity

so that fate can 0ow

and wash away the residue

of what was and is not now

a spring6 an end of winter

the powerful current of hope

Winning poem of the Just Buffalo Literary Center Boomdays Poetry Award. The goal of the competition was to write a poem featuring an ice boom. 

The Lake Erie–Niagara River Ice Boom is a floating barrier installed each winter at the outlet of Lake Erie, where it empties into the Niagara River between Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario. Stretching about 8,800 feet (roughly 1.7 miles, or 2.7 kilometers) from the outer breakwall of Buffalo Harbor almost to the Canadian shore, it is made up of 22 spans of steel pontoons, each about 30 feet long, connected by steel cables and anchored to the lake bottom. In place every winter since 1964 and usually removed by April 1, the boom helps a stable ice arch form at the head of the river, reducing ice runs that can jam the Niagara, damage shoreline property, and block the intakes of hydroelectric plants downstream.