Poetry & Prose
Sobbing
My friend told me she sobs watching the 6:30 news. From this I learned I am a man. I do not sob. A tank crushes an old man in a car. I do not sob. Bombs blast against babies. I do not sob. Millions flee home. I do not sob. A family dies on a street before cameras. I...
Journey to Kazakhstan
Yesterday I was in my favorite bookstore, Half Price Books looking shelf by shelf at the poetry section hoping something new had come in since my last visit. My eyes landed on a hard bound book, Contemporary Kazakh Literature: Poetry commissioned by the Ministry of...
The Gong Show
A world speedy soft the roar of clicks and jets all getting the job done going places filling spaces going going gong
Jeopardy
The garden is full of blossoms. The garden is full of stems. We do not go to the garden to see stems. We go to garden to see floral genitals. lovely in color, shape, and fragrance. Now you may be offended, (if your lucky, only slightly) by my use of the word genitals....
History
History is the future looking over its shoulder.
A Woman at War
Sometimes war is a heavily armed soldier and a woman in a winter coat standing six feet apart. The soldier has an AK-74 and the woman has her voice. And a raging imagination. She asks questions he can't answer, He gives answers that are not his. On one thing they both...
Do I Dare
On the occasion of the Russian military waging war on Ukraine Is it moral to delight in a rose when war has broken out 6,000 miles away, to call attention to a bird song when buildings collapse under screaming silver, when a baby carriage is pushed six miles to a...
War Living/War Dead
On the occasion of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army In war, the living are convinced of the necessity of hostilities. They live against opposition, each side the enemy of the other. They must win at all costs. Do the war dead feel the same way? In war, the...
What I Know
Studying and studying, so much to learn I learn and also learn there is so much I'll never know. Then there are the things I know I wish I did not know but need to know. These are dark facts. These are mainly historical,
Mumble/Muffle/Muzzle
the word world sinks over come by what has taken over a bland blanching sludge buzz hum drone white disquietude like cotton, like candy a saccharine brainful a mouthful of dittos