Scenes the Writer Shows {forty-one places a poem can go} is a collection of poems from travels and experiences. They describe situations and moments in life (mine or someone elses) that were either positive or negative. A few poems deal with teenage angst and issues of personal experience either in my own or someone elses life. The Hustler, for example, loosely mirrors my life and experience as a disabled person. It is a montage of my years living in Downtown Minneapolis, riding public tra...

Scenes the Writer Shows {forty-one places a poem can go} is a collection of poems from my travels and experiences. They detail situations and moments in life—mine or someone else's—that were either positive or negative. A few poems deal with teenage angst and issues of learning to live with how a world that sees a disability. "The Hustler" loosely mirrors my life as a disabled person in a Downtown Minneapolis. In this poem, and "Salvation for Burns," I illustrate riding public transit and ...

The Orthodoxy of Arrogance is a fictional account of historical events and the subsequent personal and familial conflicts they can create. The main character, Mordichai Lebenschitz, is a moyl from Dachau, Germany. As the Nazi regime rises, he changes his name to the more German Moritz. He is pompous, self-centered, and oblivious to the world and its proposed effects on him. He is charming, manipulative and self-indulgent. He and his wife Hannah elude the Nazis from 1941-1944 in the city of...