My poem "October, Dear Wife" is out, in South Florida Poetry Journal #40: www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
Thinking of Parkland. Young lives lost.
No cure for mass shootings in America.
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I'll be reading for The Inflectionist this month! Hope to see you there ... register at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
There's money for new Gulfstreams in the government, but not for SNAP.
Art at JFK International Airport.
New York City.
So long, Tom, I thought you was that bomb...
Listened a lit in High School, learned the lyrics.
Thank you, Tom Lehrer
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New Mexico in bloom
... the pleasure of realizing that a poem that was accepted last fall was actually published.
In the UK, too. Thank you Green Ink Poetry for taking "Box of Holding"
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What I am reading:
oh my soul, ripening in God's alphabet...
Just amazing.
"Some people do go both ways" -- gotta love Boston.
“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Brandeis
Lonely bit of grass in a New Mexican sidewalk.
TGIF
Gulf Stream Literary Magazine is out -- with one of my poems: "Anti-Elegy". Great job by the editors!
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And thanks to Medicine and Meaning for publishing my poem "Ported" medicineandmeaning.uams.edu/ported/
MacGuffin 40.2 is out! Grateful to the editors for selecting "Melancholia" and "Self-Portrait with a Cup of Water".
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Stand in morning light,
stand for teachers, for firemen,
for tax collectors,
for those least loved,
formed in the holy image,
the different, crooked,
neurodivergent, gender
unsure, scared, all of us
imperfect creatures.
Congress in streets,
speak for the laws
that set us free.
Go Cory, go!
Last Thursday, at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop -- reading by Greg Delanty.
Ski Day!
Four years to the day from my stem-cell transplant. Going strong.
A day with no shield,
the bags are deployed,
wrap me in bubble-wrap,
Our stock market is crashing.
Our economy is contracting.
Our government is dismantling.
Our allies are fleeing.
Our grocery prices are rising.
But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America."
So it all evens out.
Dinner at Travelers Books, Union, CT. Decent food, and used books to take home.
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
Grateful to JC & Tobi Alfier for publishing my poem "Night" in the latest issue (Spring 2025) of San Pedro River Review.
The bed so cold, I've left
the window open in case
you come back....
Hiking with my son on Sandia crest today.
