Caturday 🙂

My first "featured poet" reading... Sunday in Little Falls, NJ

This Long Beach coffee shop encourages customers to write notes to deceased loved ones, exes or even versions of their past selves... like #poetry apple.news/AR7Tutt-jTtK...

Love is a mystery, reflecting past and present. Life imitates art. Monday #haiku (59)

My view earlier today during setup for vespers tonight at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York

This. Via @postbaron.bsky.social

Who remembers going to Catholic school and having their throat blessed on Feb. 3, the Feast of St. Blaise?

In memoriam. The names of our heroes etched in halos of light. Monday #haiku (58)

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. "What's with that voice people use when reciting #poetry?" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/a...

In support of New Jersey #poet Felicia Sherelle, and her new book, “So Good”

Gift article: wapo.st/4bw8Elh

I just published Artivists Unite! medium.com/p/artivists-...

You have to like short stories where the main character is named Bob 🙂

New York in the snow... apple.news/AYCPFB4v9Qam...

My hobby these days: Fiddling off-key while Rome burns. Guilty, like Tim Cook. Monday #haiku 📝 (57)

"How can one make a life out of six cardboard boxes full of tailor's bills, love letters and old picture postcards? Yes, writing lives is the devil." Virginia Woolf, born on this day in 1882

15-year-old Joshua Romero Hernandez gives his first poetry reading, last night at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey.

Cats 🐈‍⬛

Happy #penguinawarenessday - or, as it’s known around my house, “Tuesday” 🐧

Haunted in the Bronx, A feral cat at the door. RIP, Edgar. #mondaymorninghaiku📝 (56) in honor of #EdgarAllanPoe - #btd in 1809

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809 🫀🐈‍⬛💀 Here are some of the illustrations I made for the Poe sticker book for Macmillan Books in 2024

About AI "photographs" apple.news/Ax7ayFprnQJu...

Mom’s 94th birthday today ❤️

Date night in New Jersey

When I visit you, my heart races, knees weaken. Gravestones cast shadows. Monday #haiku (55)

A winter’s walk, today in New Jersey

Remembering David Bowie, who died 10 years ago tomorrow (he would have been 79 yesterday) - left, Ellen von Unwerth’s iconic image in a NYC gallery; right, Eduardo Kobra’s tribute mural in Jersey City

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

Last Christmas cookie, Sacrificed for my breakfast. Immortalized here. 🙂 #mondaymorninghaiku📝 (54) #twelfthnight #gingerbread #nofilter

Passing a church in Budd Lake, NJ, reminded by E.B. White to "always look out for the presence of wonder."

Me on Saturday mornings. Still a kid at heart 🙂

This is a wonderful read. Highly recommended!

Taking the (toy) train home after the holidays, at the NY Transit Museum Annex in Grand Central

Happy Birthday JD Salinger!

Looming crucifix In a cozy dining room. One more silent night. Monday #haiku (53) #datenight in Ridgefield Park,NJ

Caturday

A poet in Central Park www.westsiderag.com/2025/12/25/a...

Following fake stars Has always been my weakness. Lessons never learned. #mondaymorninghaiku📝 (53)

The only good part of yesterday’s winter #solstice was my favorite tree shining just a bit longer 🙂🎄

Combining two loves, photography and poetry, I've posted an original photo and haiku every Monday this past year on social media. The result? varettoni.blogspot.com/2025/12/one-...

Recent holiday scenes from New York 🎄 #photography

"James" was No. 1 www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Hamnet was AMAZING www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Today's poetry reading -- The Hollow Men by T.S.Eliot substack.com/profile/2773...

Roses in winter: Imitation fireworks, Lingering beauty. Monday #haiku (52) Adding 2 lines to become a #tanka - Yet even this fades too soon. What lingers is memory.

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Tonight on East 50th Street #nyc

I wonder, can poetry truly be translated? wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

The Hackettstown (NJ) Star overlooking a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in the parking lot of an auto body shop.

One of my photos from a visit to Strawberry Fields. 💚🕊️