Arclist
Ralph Melcher
- Location
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Birthday
- April 13
- Title
- Writer
- Company
- Arclist
- Bio
- Ralph Melcher is an essayist living and working in Santa Fe New Mexico.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Your post called up
images of when the elderly
Italian woman
who lived next
door…”
December 14, 2008 12:21PM
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Sketches of My Father
My father never talked about his war. He was an enigma to me in many ways. A heavy smoker and someone who liked to tell a joke to lighten up a room and who liked to argue for the enjoyment of an argument. We argued often, until my mother would
Creative Space
Creative Space
There is nothing in this world I could not do without
except the air
therefore everything is a surprise
A poetry reading given by friends.
The back room at the Agora supermarket,
working class Hispanic humor.
One brother in Cleve
… Read full post »Future Tense
Future Tense
My body my anger my city
my people my son
Who are these Who are you
What are we What are those
Where do we go What is now
What is coming
Where does nature speak
A Perfect Storm
"The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!" A chant that has echoed through four decades, first heard broadcast from in front of the Hilton Hotel in Chicago in 1968, as Walter Cronkite intoned that the Democratic Convention was being held "...in a police state". This was
… Read full post »The Church
There was a large wooden clapboard building in the middle of that semi-rural Florida neighborhood. A single floored structure that stretched clear to the end of the property line where the trees and tropical bushes clustered at the edges of a creek. The place had few windows and those that it… Read full post »
Viva Las Vegas
I guess spring is coming early this year. When I drive the eight miles of my increasingly constricted world between home in the woods and bookstore in town the patches of snow along the road grow everyday less while between the occasional threat or promise of oncoming storm the
… Read full post »Political Bullshit
This priceless photo taken of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney at the inauguration of their successor captures a glimpse of two sides of the American character. On the one hand Bush looks distracted as he fiddles with something in his hands (It looks like he's playing a video game!).… Read full post »
Movies and Machines
by Ralph E. Melcher
I told myself after the election that I would try to avoid writing about politics. In spite of all of the passions expended trying to get one or another candidate elected as president the actual impact of politics on the things that effect
Two Sides of the World
Hat's off to Michael
Something has changed in these past few weeks. My own life has turned a corner and I feel like I’m coming out of a long dark tunnel. Still the world of battle calls to me as it always has. I look at those who fan the confusion and desperation in… Read full post »
Big Creek - 1981
The Facts
A Precipice
"It's not just a question of worrying or of hoping for the best, but of finding new weapons."
- Guy Deleuze "Postscript on Control Societies"
I purchased my first personal computer in 1984… Read full post »
A Precipice
"It's not just a question of worrying or of hoping for the best, but of finding new weapons."
- Guy Deleuze "Postscript on Control So… Read full post »
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