Death of the Baby Cardinal

Cardinal birds mate several times over the course of a summer. Like their winged relative, the chicken, cardinal hens will lay eggs often, raise the chicks, toss them from the nest, and repeat the cycle several times before the sun’s warmth weakens and the weather turns towards the coolness of autumn.
Only two baby birds were [...]

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As Michael Jackson Goes Into the Light

Michael Jackson was a prophet misjudged by the Jewish media.
As with the son of David, the moonwalker turned the other cheek and died a martyr for the sake of Islam.
History struggles to re-write the mood of the world shifting in a more positive note towards the King of Pop.
News anchors like Anderson Cooper who once [...]

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Clean Cut

The weather was perfect for a morning run in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park today. The low pressure system that dampened the summer spirits of those in the Northeast over the weekend has headed into the North Atlantic Sea and remnants of this humungous, hurricane-like storm offer an overcast sky with just a splash of high-humidity today.
For [...]

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Baby Cardinal Bird

One of the baby cardinal birds from the nest in the cherry tree has jumped from the haven of woven twigs before growing large enough to fly.
Watching two feathered parents raise offspring in a nest above my wind chime has kept me sedate during these worry filled days of unemployment, but two days ago, one [...]

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Putting on the Mind of Chuck

Books are like nets that fishers of men use to harvest the seas of eternity.
Like the image of a crucifix hook with bait secured neatly upon covers, writings outside the bindings of the Holy Bible also lead sinners to repentance. The mystery of the written word extends beyond immediate comprehension, definitions of words, sentence [...]

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Bed Stuy Blues

After hearing a familiar dripping sound down where the roaches roam, Bradley put a plastic bucket under the kitchen sink last night. Despite a repair by an unlicensed crack- head plumber that our landlord Lenox hired last Fall, the pipes under my sink have once again failed and all my large pots and pans are [...]

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Mystics and Miracles by Bert Ghezzi

A wooden table on the second floor of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is dedicated to new releases in literature relating to sacred scripture and new age themes.
Having a literary longing for writings formed in the minds of Christian mystics and too much time on my hands here in the age [...]

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I Do Not!

I do not plan to offer my sinful hand in marriage even if laws of man are conformed to longings of the flesh. Never shall I mock sacred traditions of man just to prove a point to the ones who do me.
What for? Why must we register at Tiffany’s when there is Walmart? Already [...]

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Birds of Pray

Thunder rocked Kings County last night. This unemployed peasant trembling under sweaty sheets reached for an expensive cigarette at precisely 3 a.m. just as the tropical wave unleashed a downpour of rain that soaked the stillness of night with a symphony of crashing droplets reminiscent of an economy that drenches all hope.
Savoring an initial inhale [...]

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Sea of Paradise

Sea, sand and windless air is what surrounded me when my soul slipped into the great abyss of cosmic consciousness.
A paralyzing electrocution from within was followed by a serenity that I wished for everyone.
The essence of time unending; stillness howling in the empty solitude as wind I once knew.
The lifeless, orange sea of forevermore, [...]

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