Alvah Allen

for Matthew Hall Part 1 Years later he was painting street scenes of Jamestown in encaustic and the same girl over and over again trying to get her right.

This window gets all the sun. You know how some windows can do that? Even the air that pours in is bright. Half-blocked by a ladder

We’re on the porch and she’s all agitated my best dog, Early. There’s another dog barking in the distance at 8 AM on Easter Sunday.

I’m wearing a lot of hats these days. I’ve got on a beanie inside a pork pie

for Shannon When you’re 12 your truancy is just not something you can face up to. After a couple of weeks the officers catch on, they’re off

So, we give up our Alamo my little Davy Crocketts. This isn’t the way it’s supposed to end I know

It’s all so simple squirrels love their trees, ducks love their ponds, my little dog, Mathilda,

for Wayne How ya feelin’ this fine morning!? I don’t know, cuz you tell me< /p>

for Cynthia Blackman Baldwin The first thing she didn’t do this morning was watch the weather or the local news.

seven springs magnolia and pecan blossoming along --May 2, 2017

Our lives are short and our worlds are small. Even when they overlap we don’t agree on what we saw. And that, my love is the reason why we still go out to…

Parasol, parasol Umbrella, umbrella Parapluie, parapluie Smart folks stay indoors or head for high ground.

Take down the goddamn Mona Lisa and create some wall space. It’s taken 500 years but, something more beautiful and intriguing has finally come along. --April 30, 2017

This was Popeye at absolute low-tide. Swee’ Pea kidnapped, only himself to blame,

The things that shake the whole world are merciful and rare. Mt. St. Helen’s Krakatoa Pompeii

for Nancy Levine and Bill Slaughter When you were young didn’t you ever want to be William Carlos Williams without going through med school?