A light arcs above the canopy. Meteor or flare gun? We are not alone, gang of atoms, star seeds, angel-makers. Let’s work on our rhetoric, immense first person plural. Say […]
Poetry
On that kid’s book with the lost bird
I remember, as a child, reading the book about the little lost bird wandering alone asking the same question to everything — the dog the cow the boat the airplane the steam […]
Athens - Poetry
Athenalogia video readings
I have launched a video series reading poems from the forthcoming poetry collection Athenalogia when I wrote during a journey to Athens in 2024. The series is being posted both […]
Poetry - Song Lyrics
My Troubles
My troubles don’t come from my lover She’s wise and kind and true My troubles don’t come from working folks doing all that we can do My troubles don’t come […]
Poetry - Song Lyrics
The country of unfinished dreams
In the country of unfinished dreams there’s one that still skips like a wreck there’s one that still skips like a record you left in the sun. In the country […]
Poetry
Nekrosestina
Leaves of gold and red make the announcement. We’ve been sleeping, trusting life’s green driver. Now we see: soil’s rich and grave appeal draws us down and grants eternal access […]
Poetry
ROSES IN THE WINDOW (Translation)
ROSES IN THE WINDOW The purpose of our life is not depravity. There are infinitely lovelier things than this statuesque presence of the bygone epic. The purpose of our life […]
Athens - Poetry
Joyride mythos
You run the road, but do you sense the pressed ground underneath the road, the muscled hours that spread it out, the large machinery employed, the unions, contracts, regulations, the […]