Monthly Archives: December 2012

Rod McKuen’s Back Story Redux

My poeticized zeitgeist don’t sit well with scholars. I roast on their spits and rack up the dollars. Who’s fueling who? Who gnaws on my bones? Who’s got my back and who gets my koans? In matters of gnawledge they … Continue reading

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Emeralds

We came upon a fir lot growing by the sea, planted twenty years ago. The burly man in the nursery gave us directions. I grew up on the other side of that stone wall, he told us, before the developers … Continue reading

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American Emptiness

Emptiness opened, shouldered in obscurity, fills up in no time. Immigrants line up as far as shining sea. Canals flush you through. Always the gifting and ripe groves of apple trees, petals on the ground.

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Abreast of Night

I remember dreaming I was waking up. So it’s this bedroom, I thought, the one with all the tiny chisels going day and night. I’d better see who’s outside, who that is making all that racket. My eyes struggled but … Continue reading

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