In Tokyo, the mama-san is smarter than you… Part of my S&R Tokyo Series I am the gorgeous dress of your beauty, and I have loved you for a very long time. […]
The blood-red Shimbashi dress: a photopoem
A scooter at midnight during the war
There is always a war… Down in San Bruno, Californiathere are renegades and vampiresrunning gun and overrunning every street.There are always women in the crosswalksshepherding their invisible childrento non-existent schools.These women drink […]
Poem for the Trump Inaugural: “The Turning”
These truths we hold to be self-evident… The Turning – Samhain 1991 1. In this dry land crickets fear to chirp for waste of moisture. Rattlers bleach their bones, listless in the […]
Roll the beach
An ode to erosion control… Sometimes when you drive by the beach you see big bastard machines and boys on skateboards and you don’t know if
In my neighborhood…
This is our country now, this is our lives. I saw a flag on a house that does not usually fly one. An elected official lives there. I voted for her, hell […]
But WHY do black lives matter? S&R honors #BLM, part 3
Body Language by Dasan Ahanu There was a trial last night Black angst took the stand and pledged an oath on a bible A symbol that truths become more pertinent in red […]
“Tokyo in the Underbrush”: ArtsWeek
Pictures and poems from Japan’s bubble years… Introduction In January, 1987 I graduated from Lehigh University with a B.A. in journalism. By the first week of March I was in Tokyo, Japan […]
The Butterfly Effect: revisiting an old poem
Old men are signal. Young men are noise. When I was a young writer I swung for the fence with every syllable. I felt like any word that didn’t crush you with […]
Poetry for Engineers
Sylvia Plath – Fever 103 Throw the first stone. I will endure it. I am purified by fire. -Poetry for engineers summarizes poems with attention to style and usage.
Poetry for Engineers
E.E. Cummings – anyone lived in a pretty how town Ask why, (not how) as children do, There’s room (for two) in your canoe. -Poetry for engineers summarizes poems with […]
