Jun 13, 2012 | Gus Stevens, Humor, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
After Andrew, Elizabeth Marie— second child, first daughter, I was to be, but the Canadian ultrasound failed and my parents’ baby-naming plans derailed. My name, Matthew, decided on a whim, somehow always seemed to fit me wrong and joined me to a wide and WASPy...
Aug 2, 2011 | Commissioned, Gus Stevens, Humor, Picture Challenge, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
Webster Wagner was born in Palatine just a stepping stone between Rome and Troy as you ride the old New York Central line from Albany straight west to Illinois. He built quite a home alongside the bridge, a mansion of the Mohawk Valley ‘tween the Adirondack and...