by Marc Jampole At first listen, Donald Trump’s speaking style when he eschews the teleprompter seems chaotically free form, as if he tossed a bunch of tweets into one of his MAGA caps and picked a few out, one at a time, and read them out loud, not bothering to supply connective material or an […]
Author: Marc Jampole
Marc Jampole wrote Music from Words (Bellday Books, 2007) and Cubist States of Mind/Not the Cruelest Month (Poet’s Haven Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies. About 1,800 freelance articles he has written have been published. A former television news reporter and public relations executive, Marc writes the OpEdge blog, which appears on the websites of three national publications. He is president of the board of Jewish Currents, a national magazine of politics and arts.
MANNAHATTA MORNING
Light-and-life-giver splashes the earth-turn,dries the flashy rain-holders in towering flight abovegusts of fish-home air-shakes swaying to iamb trees, the here-to-there of singing wings, the baked and bakingmud and stone of schist island, churned-down yellows,blues and whites still flowering or fluttering in petals on mistless cattle-graze by the trochees of bowers and gutters,and there we in-and-out […]
THE FLANEUR’S GAZE
Can you brain-burst a better sun-circle than here-and-nowingthe come-together of people and people movers, skyscraperswith see-through look-heres in colorful put-ons and take-offs. The gaze I like to give to glide-by-me objects of desirefloating over the concrete slicks where car-drives meet,my shoulder in daydream slacking a cold side of bricks. In a blink-eye, my world-catchers grapple […]