Memory of Music

To remember music
in bits of time.
Rifts and refrains,
a fog of feelings
like a madeleine cake
dipped in tea
swirling with a mix
of distant sorrow,
of fleeting joy,
set to the sonorous
strain of a single cello
in a  shadowy room.

Dennis Toth

Write On

by
Rick Brown
 

Sometimes …
people ask me
"Do you write everyday?"
And I respond,
"I don't do a LOT of things
EVERY … day."
This happens to be
my version
of Reggie Jackson's,
"I LIKE baseball …
I don't …
LOVE baseball."
And I like what I heard
an author say
… his name escapes me …
on a C-span
writers' forum
a while back.
When asked
"Do you love to write?"
he responded
… politely …
"I love …
having … WRITTEN!"