by Keith Mankin | Feb 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my youth, my family loved bookstores. No outing was complete without an hour or more browsing through the luxuriant shelves. We would fan out to our perspective pleasures: David would head to the Fantasy section or the Classics, Allison would beeline to SciFi, my...
by Keith Mankin | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
VERSE ON A FUTURE MORNING Hope lies Just beyond a windowpaneBeyond a momentbeyond a whisper or abreath Hope waits Bare-faced and welcomeBeyond a needlebeyond a touch or anembrace Hope sits At open tablesIn beery sudsin uncorked bottles and sharedglasses Hope bides...
by Keith Mankin | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Many, many months ago, when I was writing these notes daily, I turned to the old trick of alphabetical subject matters. I got as far a T before losing my taste for it. The intervening gap is serendipitous because it allows me to pick up where I left off with a timely...
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