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Poetryshe has a couple of rugs
silk for those who gladly take off shoes wool for those in fear of dancing barefoot
PoetryOne Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds
One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds with a tip of the hat to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is…
PoetryEncounter with a clown
I met a clown in plain clothes drinking in a bar—of course. He told me a kid once asked him “Are you a real…
PoetryAnna and the Scourge
We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history,…
PoetrySan Francisco
“It’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.” —Oscar Wilde Sundown sets the painted ladies dancing…
PoetryBefore Divorce
We bought our Ford Falcon for $200. There were spiders in the ashtrays. You kept a closet full of men's XL shirts and always…
PoetryHiding from the sun
there’s only a few stupider things to waste your time on like avoiding death or praying
PoetryToby, Tobias Dog
He mouths a left-over thigh, whines a new path in the grass, tries to tell himself about bone, tongue-licking the marrow to taste of…
PoetryA Man, a Banana, Panama!
(Just so you know, I usually take a walk after breakfast. And as I leave the dining room I may take a banana with…
PoetryYou’re Fired, Psycho
i fell in love with my former employer in the East Village, NYC he owns a Testudines sanctuary in central California after termination and…
Poetryu&me
. . . 1. . it's not like we'll be here foreverwe must give thanks for the blistersthanks for the tarps we hide underfor…
PoetryHidden Riddles
A quest for spiders might lead to entrapment in silk threads Palm reading: infinity is embedded in the ice crystals of hand-shaped clouds Music…