Poetry Summer Poem 30 Jun 20251 Jul 2025 It is sand. Pines. Sand. Artillery. Pines. Sand. Cardealerships for miles. I am 40. I remember standing on the edge of the Atlantic,New Year’s Eve 1999.I was 14, soon to be 15,and as midnight struckI remember…
Memoir… Philpot 24 Apr 202516 May 2025 By now, I should have learnedthat Pepsi for its own sakeisn’t really whyPhilpot would steal it back to the barracks—a sack of America's second favorite under his ACUs,risking his skin.That…
Poetry… Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt: A Review 29 Mar 202529 Mar 2025 “Men are walking on the moon today,planting their footsteps as if they werezucchini on a dead worldwhile over 3,000,000 people starve to deathevery year on a living one.EarthJuly 20, 1969”Brautigan…
fiction… Arrive at the Silence of Yourself: Reading Brautigan 5 Nov 20235 Nov 2023 "The light pours itself through a small hole in the sky. I’m not very happy, but I can see how things are faraway."After he committed suicide by gunshot, it was…
Poetry transit: a poem 27 Dec 201825 Jul 2021 "Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar."* ~ Gloria Anzaldúa -------------------------------------- america is full of ancient children who spit their cage-earned cough on our meticulous brick sidewalks, who…
Poetry for future generations: a poem 1 Jun 201825 Jul 2021 A tritina is a poem made up of three, three-line stanzas with an ending line. The end word of each line in the first stanza becomes the end word of…
Poetry Prayer: A Poem 9 Feb 201826 Jul 2021 Oh god give me organ that smells like carpet, a thousand cotton-treading feet and eyes that can’t stay open, vestments and breathing and my mother’s hand, mother’s hand, black mother,…
An Unhappy Consciousness 