Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

The secret was your body wasn’t listening to you.The secret was you weren’t ready to go. The secret was you needed to do it at the right time in the right place with the right people and none of those … Continue reading →

You know that just ten more will get you over the line but you don’t know if you have ten more in you. You don’t know if you have one more in you. At this hour with this level of … Continue reading →

I’ve been glancing around the place looking for something – anything – that I’d be able to recycle. I’ve gone through the mail, the magazines, the news, the promos, the cans, the bags, the wrappers… I’ve put them into their … Continue reading →

If you do the math it doesn’t make you a mathematician or some sort of a magician, it just makes you someone who could read the signs. That doesn’t make you a cartographer, though. You could just interpret what was … Continue reading →

If a piece of wood were to come up to me and say, “Hey there, how you doing?” I’d like to think I’d take it in stride. Thing is, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve started doing defensive shit like saying, … Continue reading →

There’s a post across the street from my place that never did nothing to me and I never did nothing to it and I wonder, “I’ve lived in this forbidding neighborhood for like, twenty two years now and this ginormous … Continue reading →

There’s this poetry page where random poems are written out for you to read. They are good poems, well worth reading. Above each poem they have a video showing an image of the poem with an automated voice reading the … Continue reading →

I am dedicated to the cause.So strong is my faith I would fight to the last ragged breath. Maybe the fifth to last breath. Honestly, I’d probably give up before the end to gulp some air back in. In fact, … Continue reading →

Some of the principlesI used to hold dear are dissipating, dust in the wind of convenience. Maybe they aren’t principles so much as things I said I didn’t want to do. After the COVID crisis, I swore "No cruises!" because … Continue reading →

A lot of timesit’s fun to look back on an old piece of work and unravel the code just recognize where you were when creating and identify what the words mean translate the "poetry" back to "English." A lot of … Continue reading →