You tutored me. Can still recite by rote the who and whom begats. On details drilled I mastered cues to quote the anecdote and when to laugh or sigh 'mid tales distilled of rogues revealed,...

Each night in dreams I face a knight or snake. I seek a maiden, fair or hermit, kind. I fly or fall or flee before I wake. It's said each is an aspect of my mind. My boss is not my shadow,...

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Originally posted on The Atlantic Monthly Writers Workshop (now defunct)in 2001, Chinese Poet Fei Mount asked this of aspiring poet Peter Menkin: ...

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. The second of two poems in a series written about Ascension Day trip to Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA USA. The trip, made in 2000 and the poem...

Humorous poem of a secular kind by Peter Menkin. These words from Peter Menkin blog: Tattoos I have noticed...with a poem about a tattooed girl... A friend noted that tattoos of original intent...