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The Mole
Somewhere on an island, a man, after learning he has not got
long to live, decides to write a novel he believes will be a
masterpiece and serves as his contribution to literature and
society. But something goes wrong. The ambitious project our
protagonist embarks upon is divided into ten books....
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The Mole II
The Mole II is a distinctive and compelling free-verse
monologue about the horrors and devastating effects of
slavery on the victims as well as the perpetrators of that wicked
and debilitating institution. It is about the mental and
psychological hardships experienced by each slave. The...
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The Mole III
A couple resigns themselves to the fact that life only offers pain
and disappointment.
Man becomes a beast cast out from the paradise of redemption.
A young woman believes that a person must die at least twice in one
lifetime to understand the secret of life.
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The Mole IV.: Possessor
The poet gives his view of the world through a series of love poems
he addresses to a phantom lover or a woman he admires, who may or
may not be real. But most of what he feels about the world, its
politics, and social and civil structure are seen through the
poet's and phantom's eyes.
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The Mole Vol V: Spare Part
These verses are about a man trying to find his place in the world
and how he prospers by destroying others and even the ones he
loves. He sets up a dichotomy that pretends to be good versus evil,
and we disseminate these two opposites through the voice of the God
he creates. Man views him as...
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Island Under the Sea
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Metaphor on a Jazz Slope
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The Mole Vol XII: Mask
PP 243
Mask is a collection of poems dealing with the mask all men wear
throughout their lives. They are taught to be something other than
themselves. The poet battles to strip himself of this mask or
pretense if you will. He finds it difficult to keep his sanity by
immersing himself in the...
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The Mole Vol XIII: In the Olive Grove (A Quintet)
pp 268
These monologues are records of the dead who have been
victims of the many massacres carried out by the Hagenah, the
Zionist paramilitary organization in British Mandatory Palestine,
established in 1920, then dissolved in 1948, and integrated into
the Israeli Defense...
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The Mole Vol XIV
pp 289
These monologues are records of the dead who have been victims of
the many massacres carried out by the Hagenah, the Zionist
paramilitary organization in British Mandatory Palestine,
established in 1920, then dissolved in 1948, and integrated into
the Israeli Defense Force after Israel...
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The Mole Vol XV: At the Raw Edge of Life
pp 215
In these poems, nature conflicts with urban city life. Jealousy and
envy hack away at men's hearts and, at times, throw them into a
vortex of darkness. The world is in turmoil. People treat each
other as strangers and with hostility; men find it difficult to
reach a common goal. I mean...
