Reading / Book Signing

My West-Coast book promotion tour begin this coming Thursday evening at Green Apple Books in San Francisco. I will perform texts from Sojourner in the spirit of artistic anarchy with my trusty Dada drum. Come have a glass of wine, say hello, listen, shout back, sing along, and get a book signed.

Full Book Tour info here.

A Poem for the Past

Naugahyde remains, sometimes

lost childhoods retrieve

old world series victories

when we win a tough

one. The sun is enough

sometimes to spark

that Proustian reflex

Pontifically infallible

of knowing who you once

were.

6/22/2013

Spokane, WA

Performance of "Lubbock Elegy"

Captured reading "Lubbock Elegy (For Billy Boy)" from Sojourner, at the Meykadeh LibreriaCafé in Florence, Italy on April 18th 2013. 

The Neapolitan Befana

Florence

A Dream

A Valentine

 

“Her body is the shape of my hands.” –Paul Eluard

My Galatea, smooth and warm

as sandstone in her palms

and firm fingers caressing,

sculpts me each and every

day with her curved and slender

presence. Venus has no auguries

,neither pearl nor rose, to prove

if I were worthy of her chisel

against my stony heart

not yet come to the apex

of the wheel.

2/14/2011

Florence