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Poetry: “Cars”, Featuring Image: “En El Trafico”
Cars if we could talk for hours I’d tell you of planned nights nights that I have mapped and charted that we might journey through and visit every part of no traffic on the roads just us exploring slick streams that keep replenishing at the toss of a pebble gently flown to the waters…
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Fiction: “The Other Day”, Featuring Image: “Sink on Farm”
The Other Day The other day– bear in mind that when I say the other day I am referencing any day between the present and my birth, I was at the Powell Muni station coming home with my date. Well, technically speaking, it wasn’t the other day, but the other night. Also while we are…
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POETRY: “A LITTLE LIFE SAVED TODAY”, VISUAL ART: “foggy tree”
A Little Life Saved Today On the might-have-been pristine sand of Ocean Beach, clear, with the late-afternoon sun balming me runners childers mothers & fathers (the guardians of the inheritors) picnickers smokers surfers fishers I saw the hulking black crows chowing down on slick sellophane and thought of the footage I’d seen of…
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POETRY: “IRREVOCABLE”, FEATURING IMAGE “BeKind”
Irrevocable you look like a ghost you look haunted you look hunted barely alive, clinging to a bottle bruises on your fists a cut under your eye like a caged animal lost and confused lashing out in every direction all you know is that bottle and that anger I can smell your…
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Fiction: “The Clipboard”, Featuring Image: “Macrobiotic”
The Clipboard Scott is naked. He is stretched out in the hospital bed on the 5th Floor of San Francisco General Hospital. A small blanket covers his body from the waist down. He can’t get comfortable. Every time he attempts to lie on his side, the muscle bound and very serious young man in…
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Fiction: “Waning Crescent”, Featuring Image: “Surfer”
Waning Crescent He leaned against the wall, long legs crossed at the ankles. A cigarette dangled from his hand, smoke leaking from his lips in a slow, swirling haze. His hair, obsidian-black, rose in well-oiled spikes from the crown of his head. The sharp lapels of his jacket folded back across his chest, revealing a…
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Poetry: “Epitaph for Frank”, Featuring Image: “Waves”
Epitaph For Frank If you want to remember me Go to the sea and feel the breeze Drive with the windows down I’ll be along for the ride When you can’t feel my touch Reach your hand out to a friend, Smile at a child, call her by her name, Gaze for a…
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Poetry: “Earthly Things”, Featuring Image: “Foggy Curve”
“earthly things” In the dip of my suspension bridge heart lies a letter to my next incarnation. It contains secrets once held in my cavities now paused, hanging in the negative space, lodged between beginnings like foodstuff in one’s teeth. As non-memories become, only earthly things matter now. First words, chopsticks, rosaries,…
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Poetry: “Lamentation”, Featuring Image: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
Lamentation ‘Tis known age comes to each and all who’ve been But what, I ponder is such change about? No more, soft babe-in-arms, oh how I miss that skin, Like alligator, now, and that fact makes me pout. A mind, in school days, fast, at last enjoys Slow cogitation in this elder manifestation But…
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Poetry: “Ten Days”, Featuring Image: “Married to Art”
Ten Days My friend, I write to reach you: It’s the loneliest thing in the world— waiting to be found. Days annotate themselves before us, before we have time to arrive before we have memorized the proud trot of a passing morning. You are behind my eyes, where I lead my life…
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