The canine formerly known as Highway. His full name now is Blue Guitar Highway 61 Metsa, or Blue for short. Photo courtesy of Paul Metsa/Alphabet Jazz. In the days and weeks after we released Blackie The Patron Saint of All Rescues to the Rainbow Bridge, I was adrift and forlorn. He’d been my little buddy for almost
as “Metsa is as likable a narrator ever graced a barstool.” –Kirkus Review / Submitted photos. Alphabet Jazz is a collection of poetry, prose, stories, and songs I wrote between 1984 and 2022. It started coming together in 2020 as I was preparing to move out of Minneapolis, my home since 1978. The anthology is