Hiding Out—Selected Poetry

• Foreword by Keith Althaus
• Introduction by Bunny Pearlman
• Hiding Out I
• Hiding Out II
• Hiding Out III—The Perfect Hermits
• Crumbling Convent Walls
• Tepic to Tijuana
• Remember (for Edie)—Memento Mori
• The Desert—The Color of Memory (Arad)
• Above My Table (for Zeev)—Memento Mori
• Poppies
• The First Shabbat (Elder Camp CT)—(meditation I)
• The Second Shabbat—(meditation II)
• Lightning and Rainbows—(meditation III)
• A Smiling Moon (the beginning)—Momento Mori
• Memorial Day
• Pale Nimbus (Creation)—(meditation IV) (nocturnal vision)
• It Is Getting Late in the Day—Memento Mori
• The Rooms of My Childhood
• A Great Mansion (Memento Mori)—Alan Lichtenstein (a short but generous life)
• Isabelle (Hebrew School, Belleville, New Jersey)
• Jose (Angel in the Basement)
• Bedtime
• A Secret Life—(meditation V)
• Has Someone Died (Memento Mori)
• False and Illuminating Chimera (after the storm)
• Making the Bed—(Memento Mori)
• Begin Again—(meditation VI)
• The Park—Old Men, Trees, Stones and Birds—Memento Mori
• The Quiet Rhythm of All This
• Hospital Tzfat (Safed) (Israel)
• Thoughts while painting—Definitions, Evolution
• (more) Thoughts while Painting
• The Blizzard—Meditation VII
• As She Lay Dying—(Memento Mori)
• I Paint Pomegranates
• A Little Painter in a Little Town
• Love Letters (for G.C.)
• Fifty-three Years Ago, My Father Died at Fifty-three—Memento Mori
• Main Street Movie
• You Said Things
• Natan—A Day in Paradise
• The Cossacks Are Coming—Memento Mori—Grandma Jenny/Jean Stark
• Trio plus one
• The Dark Night of the Soul
• This Abbreviation
• My eyes play tricks
• Winter—meditation I
• Winter—meditation II
• The Trees in Winter—meditation III
• When the First Bird Sings—Memento Mori for Jerry Schwartz—(my first lost best friend)
• The Wadi—The Yellow Dog
• Desiderata
• A Few Moments that Are Really Mine—New digs (meditation)
• Memento Mori—Each Day (after Rambam—Maimonides) for Rico
• Bee Cottage—Memento Mori
• Memento Mori for H.P. —Spider and Isadora
• Flaunting Solitude
• Creation/Intention
• Memento Mori—for Edie—my beloved sister
• Play Ball—(Edie and the Softball Team at the Y)
• Memento Mori (the post holocaust years)—Death
• You Said Things (Promises)
• Waiting (dream)
• Why Have the Foxes
• Old Friend (for Michael C.)
• Swallow the Moon
• Memento Mori (Grandpa Harry)—Riding Horses in Detroit and Coming to America
• Celia at the Beach (Memento Mori)
• Jenny and Celia
• Lost at Coney Island
• Playing God (A Matter of Physics)
• It Looks Like a Life—Memento Mori
• Dark Thoughts—and Remembered Dreamings