Eugene V. Debs

My Hoosier Heritage
A blue State Historical Marker denotes the fading home site
Hidden in plain view, resting solo in the vacant
Parking lot of this Red State University campus
In the ironic shade of the Business School building
We make our pilgrimage to Terre Haute
Home of Convict #9653
Five times candidate for President of the United States
Founder of the American [...]

12/13/07

first flakes over the river
winter arrives one week early
with sleety feet forward
and a quick-winded mind
the lady looks cold in the harbor
hunkering down for the long campaign

Shema

The festival lights
left smoldering now
foil gelt crumbled gone
plastic dreidel left unspun
latkes remain uneaten
this year the cosmos will align
all apples vegas style
harbinger of better times
Sh’ma Yis’ra’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.