For the Love of a Rose Garden Yellow maple-leaves cart-wheeled Pursued by shadows of autumn light across the sloping lawns. And there! Red iridescence swayed. Following an inflamed heart My eyes found Jantzen Girl, a single blossom, Among the rosehips of Fragrant Memory, Carefree Beauty, and Pleasure Floribunda. Gently, Holding his arm She found […]
Illinois Times Staff
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quick takes 10-28-04
ALL YOU CAN BE Need info on how to avoid getting sucked into war? Bill Ruhaak, a veteran of the Illinois Army Reserve, offers advice at an event on Wednesday sponsored by Pax Christi Springfield, a local Roman Catholic peace group. Ruhaak, a reservist from 1964-70, is a 1995 graduate of the Diocese of Joliet […]
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letters 10-28-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com A MATTER OF LOCAL SECURITY I read Fletcher Farrar’s column “Not another […]
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people’s poetry 10-28-04
The Falling of the Year Autumn. sweet sad quiet. evoking memories Captured sunlight falls to earth in leaf-shapes Summer sheds her clothes for sleep A season’s bounty cached in earthern mounds in shelved glass, in zero cold We copy creatures of the saving-kind Leaf-smoke echoes elder days when fragrant hearthfires warmed away the chill of […]
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letters 10-21-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com NOTES FROM A CITIZEN CANVASSER I’m just back from election canvassing on […]
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quick takes 10-21-04
RIGHT’S RIGHTS ATTACK The Bush administration has provided a treasure trove for veteran film and TV producer Robert Greenwald. He’s successfully mined recent controversies for material to produce several anxiety-inducing documentaries. Greenwald’s Unprecedented (2002) probed allegations of election fraud that helped put George W. Bush in the White House. This year’s Outfoxed spotlighted the pro-Bush […]
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quick takes 10-14-04
GIVE ABE AND MARY A HAND More than 200 volunteers are expected this Saturday, Oct. 16, to help replace wooden fences, build gates, install boardwalks, and paint at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. To participate, go to the conference center at the Lincoln Home visitor center between 8:30-9 a.m. Activities continue until 1 p.m. […]
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letters 10-14-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com MAKE CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE In reference to Geri L. Dreiling’s article describing how […]
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people’s poetry
Best Buy Yes, I’ve watched them come and go. They’re not talking of Michaelangelo; just to someone on their cell phones — as they wander to and fro at Best Buy. They come in droves like a first night Broadway crowd, like lemmings gone down to the sea, like children after the Pied Piper. It’s […]
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letters 10-7-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com DO YOU FEEL A DRAFT? Our military is overextended, and we need […]
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quick takes 10-7-04
THIS JUST IN “Sound bites are overshadowing substance in the U.S. Senate campaign,” according to the current edition of Illinois Issues, the respected Springfield-based monthly. Of course, when one of the candidates is Alan Keyes, the bites are big and they’re hard to digest, even for Illinois Republican Party leaders who tapped the Maryland talk […]
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people’s poetry 9-30-04
Barn Cat I wanted my old cat. My old cat curled around my neck Like a black velvet collar. She purred in my ear. She talked all the time, And when she was irritated She talked very loud. She rode my shoulders Upstairs and downstairs And even into the basement. This mouse-fattened barn cat Is […]
