Category Archives: poetry

Living Like Falling Water

My divorce is final, and I have been feeling very empty and removed from the world. I have been feeling a lot of anger toward my now ex-wife, but today I walked and made my life start from today. I … Continue reading →

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Time Travel Interview Part II

In Which I answer the last 18 questions posed by Marcel Proust’s aunt to the 14 year-old Proust. I gotta say these are pretty tough questions for a 14 year-old. I know if my aunt asked me these questions when … Continue reading →

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A Song That Sang Itself to Me Using Leonard Cohen’s Voice

Mangle of Insipid Arthropods Eaten Ever by Night with reticulated majesty breaks my flight and lets me down macabre tragedy sets my wheels on fire and drives me to the edge of sound I spit out all the glass and … Continue reading →

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Love in the Complex World

  I want to learn this:   for I am mad with    devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth. Walt Whitman, Excelsior I wonder if it is possible. I think I remember coming close a few times … Continue reading →

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A Few Foolish Things

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” – Steven Wright Even at the time When my father lay dying I still kept farting. Composed by Yamazaki Sokan /Translated by Donald Keene A poem I … Continue reading →

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