Childhood, writers, dilemmas

Ela Vasilescu asked me to write about "Childhood, writers, dilemmas" for her blog Writer in Florence and I did. Click on this text to read it.

Newly uploaded to Bandcamp, Sputnik, the aural companion to my anthology of stories and poems about the mystery of place, Sojourner. Here for your streaming and downloading pleasure are 17 pieces from the book and two others that didn't quite make the cut, performed a Capella, with drums, with music, and sometimes other, more interesting sounds. If you already own the book, help yourself to this free download, otherwise consider donating a bit o' cash towards all the artist's hard work here, or sending me a whopping 15 Euro through Bandcamp/Paypall, for which I will mail you a signed paperback copy of Sojourner anywhere in Europe, the US, or Canada.

Cheers!

 

San Francisco

It’s a sad

truth, how appreciation

springs from lack.

Black night’s agonies

trickle from my fingers

in stoic philosophies—

I die a thousand deaths

in my mind.

I am I, saddest

motherfucking truth

there is. The fog

lifts and I sit

on wooden steps

—Espresso and an Export

‘A’—and live again.

Do we all throw

away lives so easily,

so thoroughly? Lee

And Debra, Lee and Debra.

Debra and Lee. Eurydice,

Eurydice, Eurydice.

7/29/2015

San Francisco