Larry Gross (@porlock) profile picture

Retired prof, keeps busy with baseball, baseball cards, poetry, sijo

Florida
Joined August 2008
in ice and sun / even he is shadow / the white bear
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Just finished reading: The Book Stops Here: A Mobile Library Mystery by Ian Samson
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ==Finley Peter Dunne
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. ~~~ Franklin P. Jones
silent house... grandfather’s wall phone... old crank...
Most of us live somewhere between "I can't wait" and "Wait, I can't."
Ahhhh, the Cubs just lost their second game to the Braves. 0 & 2 -- what a start to the season. Dempster pitched a fine game, though.
And Monday, the Cubs play the Braves. My two favorite teams....
Just watched the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the first game of the baseball season. Hurrah....
How can I make the short lines of a poem appear properly on Twitter instead of all in one line. Frustrating!
Spring Haiku -- spring breeze / my nostrils / plunge into skunk
Just finished updating my sherlock Holmes pastiche book list. I'm afraid I'm a Holmes nut, no matter the quality of the book.
I'm waiting forever for a security program from Comcast to download....
raw february / stopping the meter reader / for morning coffee
I'm looking for BookMooch....
by firelight / the crackling silence / of lost love
Eve to Adam: of all the people I know I like you best
in the canyon everything answers the wind
the sound of wind how to tell it from the sound of pine
Ooops. Now it's Rockies, 3-2. Ah well, it's still early.