Cliché

Broad daylight. Strange
coming

to terms with it, as if
it were something

out of the ordinary,
out of the blue

nothingness.

(from The Intricate Evasions of As)

Not So Recently Linked

A belated thank you to J.E. Jacobson for providing a link to my blog on his A Poetic Matter. It's clear he chose the title carefully, for poetry clearly matters to him and his posts reflect it.

Reverie

remember

whenever


jasmine

flowers


absent

mind


makes

sense

(First published in NOON: journal of the short poem, #2)

Irredeemable

whores' clap-
trap

the poets prick

.

and money talks
a fluency

of the unspeakable
changing hands

(From The Intricate Evasions of As)

Two Review 2009

Just received my contributor's copies of Two Review 2009--an excellent issue which reflects the editors' mission statement: "All subject matter is considered as long as the attention to craft is high and the language is grammatically strong, syntactically unique, and illuminates in some way the human experience. Writing about the modern world, its inhabitants, and the events that shape them, from the personal day-to-day experiences of work and family life to worldwide events that effect us all, is preferred." You can see a list of the contributors and their domiciles here.

Not So Pedestrian Gadfly under Guise of Country Bumpkin

Now

Look here
You-all

Certified highfalutin'
City-bred dandies,

It's sho 'nuf

High nigh
Impossible, so

Why in tarnation youse tryin'
To outrun a horse-

Fly.

(First published in First Intensity #21, Fall 2006)

War of Attrition

Looking back
they saw

what wore them
down was not

their in-
constancy,

their constant
frictions,

but how to love,
honor and obey

a life made up
of fictions.

(First published in Kater Murr's Press, 2005)