Bio Note: My poems are spins on our everyday world, which has always gripped me much more than science-fiction worlds. A now retired English Professor, I taught for many years at Suffolk University in Boston. I also for several years was Poetry Editor for IBBETSON STREET magazine. I have had several collections of poems published.

He stands, amid the silence,
at the foul line
                in what
had only been a game

his team will win if he makes 
the shot;
                stands alone
inside a hugeness filled

with a hundred people who witness--
when the ball
                deflects off the rim--
his change from boy to man.