Cute baby in a high chair
poised like a CEO
at the head of the table
all eyes upon her,
or is it a boy?
Dark blue sleeves
rolled up over a white shirt.
Then I notice
the receding hairline
and wonder –
How old is this soul,
grabbing for the pint glass?
My mother at home in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania Dust of the coal mines on the
Exquisite Silence Mountain ridge panoramic view sky draining of blue and white and flowing towards
This poem was sparked by an interviewer asking a guy beside me at the Moral
The shock of birds of prey came home to roost this week on our suburban
Blaise Kielar received Honorable Mention in the 2022 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for an excerpt from his memoir in progress, “Be Heard: The Quiet Kid Who Started the World’s Loudest Violin Shop.” He opened Chapel Hill’s first violin shop in 1978 and retired from a music retail career by transitioning Electric Violin Shop into the first worker-owned co-op music store in the United States. He plays jazz violin and clarinet in several bands and leads the Bulltown Strutters, Durham’s community New Orleans brass band.
