Spring is in the air today.

Well done, Keyes. Spangle your Banner. Happy 4th to you & all.

(Cara, me & Juliet)

My mother's drawing (cartoon?) featured in HAT 6 poem. 

Race of the antennae. (My friend Bob, physicist, backyard inventor & ham radio buff.)

Brodsky with some Russian friends (including Petersburg poet Olga Sedakova, 3rd from left) in Venice.

A good essay (Celan's Mandelstam)

[p.s. HG Poetics photo was taken on bridge over the Seine, early '90s]

From the library window I can see the riverbank where Williams planted Providence.

(Sloop Providence, sailing upstream)

5-finger exercises 

India Point Park

Providence through library glass (fibrillating) 

Dante sees his shadow. Spring on the way. 

I walk under the severe look of this hippy dude with the wreath every morning going to work. But belike he doesn't even see me - absorbed in his medieval thought-world.

Poe's last photo(?). Taken at the Providence Atheneum (see above), approx. 15 steps down the hill from my computer. (p.s. that lamppost is a replica of the ones EAP probably hugged as he swayed sousedly home to his hotel.)

Mississippi walk-along. 

the honeycomb dome around the corner (Morris Ave.) 

the last of the Nedges

Another of Mike's cover designs - done with Elmer's Glue on black canvasboard

My brother Mike did this cover, which I thought was pretty good. (Mike was at one time guitarist with "famous" Mpls punk band Rendered Useless)

Nedge #3 cover. Old railroad bridge over Mississippi at St. Anthony Falls, with train going over it. Picture was taken for my grandfather's (the g'pa mentioned in poem posted today, his b-day) engineering firm, which had a hand (I believe) in putting up those Pillsbury grain elevators in the background.

(...all part of my devious master plan, haha! to re-infect American poetry with plot, theme & character! Elder Olson vs. Chas. Olson! haha! Chicago vs. the Coasts! Heehee! Venus Beats All!!

- the Most Evil Professor HP Ghould)