Articles by Julian O. Long

Poem

Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.

"...Harvest and waste of passage...

"...wondered if that sound was the last thought..."

"...Fifty years is a building's life, said the college pres..."

"...What's wrong will never now be right..."

"He was once my best friend..."

"...be time enough and time enough to praise this one more springtime..."

"...No one living knows its history now..."

"...Friday nights with whole families dancing..."

"...we'll cleverly hide away in swamps..."

"...I'd like to walk it one day..."

"...panic as though the world has just ended..."

"...finding no heart there..."e that doesn

"...he was quoted saying it had been his only real home...."

"...maybe because you had no idea who Isadora Duncan was..."

"Big easy has Bourbon Street..."

"...hopin’ light will stay the night..."

"...singing always his own blues, singing always to one person...."

"...Otherwise he’d freeze his toes..."

"...case open in front of him already filling with passersby’s pocket change..."