Poetry
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Poetry: “Autumn in New York”, Featuring Image: “The Fog”
songbook: Autumn in New York Why does it seem, long after I left, long after she left, autumn invites Aunt Stella down from her penthouse to walk her way into it, just a few blocks east, until 93rd stops being west. And the hurried grid of Manhattan spread-eagles suddenly onto rocks and grass and…
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Poetry: “Three Cloves of Garlic”, Featuring Image: “Lion Chops”
Three Cloves of Garlic The members of the allium family remained whole, its Gilroy roots still bonded together, hidden underneath the dry soil along the narrow highway but the Romeros lost a 6-year old, standing 4ft tall, a chubby cheeked smile, and as an arid light breeze blew through the festive food court, a…
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Poetry: “Courage of our Ancestors”, Featuring Image: “Maya Angelou”
Courage of our ancestor My grandmother was named after one of the Adelitas in the Mexican revolution The dresses she sewed for my sisters and cousins, were Art We walked for miles, in the Colonia de San Andres hills, selling her dresses door to door She was home for me, an inner home With her…
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Poetry: “Essential Processes to the Development of a Sense of Self”, Featuring Image: “Zion’s Watchman”
Essential Processes to the Development of a Sense of Self You string a hammock up beneath the willow within a thicket of oaks and redwoods, your body swings gently back and forth, back and forth, time to relax—inhale a deep breath of crisp fresh air, savor the soothing scents of eucalyptus, appreciate…
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Order
Order The magnets spelled out the A B Cs Or they should have, to my mind My friend arranged them in any order I told him he was wrong I knew how to read after all Even if I was faking it half the time I wanted to be…
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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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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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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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