The Brothers Quatrone by Rich Quatrone

THE BROTHERS QUATRONE They attack us, this I know. They don’t understand. This I know, too. And in some instances they are right to criticize us. For we have committed our wrongs. But there is more to us than how Continue reading The Brothers Quatrone by Rich Quatrone

The Christmas Blues by Rich Quatrone

THE CHRISTMAS BLUES I’m starting to get the Christmas blues. They come in ones and threes and twos. It’s as if I have no shoes. No shirt, nor pants, nor happy to-dos. I’m starting to feel the Christmas sorrow. And Continue reading The Christmas Blues by Rich Quatrone

The Last Day Of Seventy One by Rich Quatrone

THE LAST DAY OF SEVENTY ONE the last day is like all the other days only this one is the last of those days when I was 71 and before that 70 and before that 69, then 68, 67, 66, Continue reading The Last Day Of Seventy One by Rich Quatrone

Tears Before Sunrise by Rich Quatrone

TEARS BEFORE SUNRISE here i am an old man already how did this happen anyway because i am not old inside i am the boy in high school the kid on the streets of the city longing for a first Continue reading Tears Before Sunrise by Rich Quatrone

I BECAME ALONE by Rich Quatrone

I BECAME ALONE I became alone when the world spun out like a mad globe in the dark universe when I was 22. That night on the Columbia campus when the stars shifted and nothing was to be the same Continue reading I BECAME ALONE by Rich Quatrone

Beside The Dead by Rich Quatrone

BESIDE THE DEAD Nos defauts son nos qualites. One of the reasons I have not been able to pull this cottage together is that I don’t want to remain here. I think to move when the lease expires the end Continue reading Beside The Dead by Rich Quatrone

Gun Love by Rich Quatrone

RICH QUATRONE is a poet and playwright living in Spring Lake, NJ. He was educated at Rutgers College and Mason Gross School of the Arts, both at Rutgers University. He and Lorraine Quatrone founded PASSAIC REVIEW in 1979, inspired by Continue reading Gun Love by Rich Quatrone