poems
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Demolition City
They sterilized the land the art deco department stores and the stumpy roots of the buildings of the Pacific Southwest Exhibition have been buried under concrete and rubble. every timber and brick that once shook during the earthquake of ’33 every roadside diner every steepled church; flop-houses and mansions torn down for mini-malls. the Tongva…
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New Book “Plague Songs”
My new poetry chapbook “Plague Songs” is now available through Amazon. Poems about plagues ancient and modern, sorrow and loss. Buy your copy now! Plague Songs
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Inspiration
I had to buy some inspiration the well had run dry the go-to stash was Poe in macabre navy blue an old print, just a fancy cover to make it new the pages crisp as fresh twenty dollar bills the little red ribbon bookmark starched like my father’s old button-on collars. There goes the ramparts…
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NEW BOOK: Neutron Cowboys
Please buy a copy of my newest poetry chapbook, “Neutron Cowboys: Poems about the Manhattan Project.” Its available here at Amazon: Neutron Cowboys From the back-of-the-book summary: The men who worked, who wracked their brains to create new atomic elements, who risked death to unleash the power of the sun, were dazzled by achievement and blinded…
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We Are All Amalgamates
We are all amalgamates of taste and sound; once we heard, once we smelled something was integrated into our person chopped onions on a grill the small tinkle clunks of bamboo windchimes the breeze light the sun strong and its 1998 the grand opening of the aquarium downtown the dog had just died so we…
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We Return to the Sea
They returned to the sea (the sea we all crossed, some in chains) the Atlantic cold in wintertime (but they’re too far south for icebergs) off the coast under blue sky and turbulent clouds and the rays of the sun 93 million miles away, which penetrate the calmly churning ocean, scintillate in verdigris slanting through…
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New Book, ‘Flightless Birds’ Out Now
My new collection is available now from Amazon.com Its a poetry cycle devoted to my memories of 9/11 as an 18 year old in Southern California. Flightless Birds
The Numinous Cosmos 