Tag: mildred alpern

They’re hangers-on/Refuse to leave the party.

Escaping daffodils.

Janus looks in both directions/From year retired to minted new

They’re hangers-on/Refuse to leave the party.

Surprise additions are many more/On windows, stairs and brownstone door

June is sublime/Sweet summertime

In the past, if we were ever short of good copy for the Rag, I would turn to Mildred Alpern, a longtime contributor of poetry and photographs.

The saying that March comes in like a lion/And then goes out like a lamb/Suggests an animal sequence/Of an unlikely caravan

New Year’s eve midnight cheer/Surges into the brand new year

They’re hangers-on/Refuse to leave the party.

No need to travel to the gardens of Giverny fifty miles outside of Paris to view summer flowers in a splendidly untamed setting. Thanks to volunteers

Mildred Alpern, whose vivid photos of nature and lobby Christmas trees have graced West Side Rag in the past, has a new show up at the St. Agnes Library on

Many buildings on West End Avenue’s Golden Mile have old world panache, having been built around the turn of the 20th century. At Christmas time, the lobbies