Monthly Archives: February 2022

Here is a link: https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2022/02/two-poems-by-steve-deutsch.html The Mercury will peak at -2 today. Declaring a holiday, we let the kids sleep in, take coffee  in the toasty kitchen, and stare out frost-crazed windows willing something, anything, to motion. When they wake … Continue reading →

I heard him say it dozens of times, but the first time I said it I laughed out loud. Dad never had  two extra nickels to rub together— my parents the king and queen of getting by— and, get by … Continue reading →

My mother told us—“If you turn the light on,then turn the light off.Learn to love the darkyou will reside theresoon enough.” She insisted we earna shower—“worked up a sweat, did you,sitting in your chair reading?”And reminded us that coldwater cleanedas … Continue reading →