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Two poems on Rusty Truck today

Desperado You better letSomebody love youBefore it’s too late. The Eagles. I heard you’reworking constructionin Wyoming,my brother, my friend. Living out of Dad’stattered suitcasein some crappy moteloff Interstate 80– the highway to heaven.I suppose you’ll do what damageyou can thereand … Continue reading

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Love, Steve

My poem, Love Steve, was just published by The Green Silk Journal. Here is the poem: Love, Steve That old phototook my breath away.How had I misplacedthe memory?Did you? It wasforty years ago.The gentlest June—the sea, the sand, the sunon … Continue reading

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Graveyard

My poem, Graveyard, was just published by Persephone Literary Magazine. Here is the poem: Graveyard They laid it out on a risetoo steep for draft horses.It’s a lonely spot—but aren’t they all. Headstones scatteredover the two acreslike chess piecesplaced by … Continue reading

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Boketto

My poem, Boketto, was just published by the Orange Rose Lit Magazine. Here is the poem: Boketto Sleepless once againI usethe Sturgeon Moon to pick my waythrough a landscape,strewn with boulders that overlooks the sea.I head for one called Poseidon’s … Continue reading

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After,

My poem, After, was just published by Burningword Literary Journal. Here is the poems. After, we tookthe long wayhome. As if sucha simple actmight flummox fate. We area good people.We bury our dead and helpthe maimedto cross the road. Yet … Continue reading

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Unhurried

Snow this morning.Flakes as bigas oak leaves flutterin the eddying air,as if their appointmentwith the groundmight wait. I watch themfrom a windowthat overlooksa small porchheavy withgarden tools—artifacts from a forgotten season.I sip a third cup,warm in the warm houseand curl … Continue reading

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Looking for America

From the Editor of Clackamas Literary Review. Really cool. How do you go from a student-run lit. mag. to a national music prize? In just five easy steps: Step 1: A poet submits his work. In September of 2022, Steve … Continue reading

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Beyond Wealth

My poem, Beyond Wealth, was published today by OneArt. Here is the poem: Beyond Wealth On the deserted boardwalk at Coney Island, just before a storm roared in, gray-black clouds peeked over the Ferris Wheel— waves strained the imagination. On … Continue reading

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Last Winter

My Poem, Last Winter is in Issue 30 of MacQueen’s Quinterly. Here is the poem: Last Winter False spring today. A mild breeze fans the bare trees as if in rehearsal. I walk along the riverbank lost in thought. It … Continue reading

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What the Body Remembers

Here is the third of my published poems by The Write Launch: Here is the third of my published poems by The Write Launch: What the Body RemembersIt grew back straight and softwith the texture ofmulberry silk. Surreptitiously, I searched … Continue reading

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