The Five-Two

LA COSA AMERICANA We used to call it "The Mafia." Untouchable man at the top Capos run criminal enterprises insinuate thems...

TO MY 5-YEAR-OLD SELF AS I APPROACH 55 today i go thru an old door behind my eyes arriving back beneath that terrible roof & i pic...

Photo by Gerald So The Five-Two has published some memorable holiday poems, usually light in tone. This year, though, the site has a duty n...

ELEGY FOR FIFTY CENTS about those unworn baby shoes, don't leap to tragedy. everyone knows babies hate things on their feet. they k...

I ONLY WENT TO THE STORE we ran out of eggs and the store was a few blocks away it was 5 AM when I stepped outside a few cars zoomed by...