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From December 2017, lost in my notes until now ..read more

I'm still here, still writing, just haven't completed much lately.  I've been pretty preoccupied, exhausting myself sifting through all the lies and dross tossed at us each day.  I don't really want to post angry political poems so those mostly get thrown out.  I might still post one if I can do it like an allegory and it comes out all right.  I am trying to focus on other better things in life and get back into my old groove.  I miss street poetry.  This is an old poem I found on my ipod and realized I had not shared.   ..read more

My partners and I are offering a special poem service at this time, and you can get a poem from any one of us -you get to choose.  Here is the website ..read more

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This was written a few months back and is finally being posted now ..read more

I was in hotel during a work trip I wasn't thrilled to be on, and feeling trapped, so I went for a walk downtown and it was cold.  I stopped in a diner I like and banged out two pages on my Hermes Rocket.  There didn't seem to be much order to them, but when I reread them later I liked some of the pieces.  I tried to rewrite them minimally, but organized them into a cohesive poem I quite like, that I feel captures the emotion of my little walk.  Writing the original brain dump at the 3rd Street Diner in Richmond, Virginia.  Editing and typing the final version at a laundromat back home ..read more

  I love this new QDL! The missing pages in one of my pocket notebooks which inspired this poem ..read more

Hebrew uses a lot of words which build on themselves.  A commonly shown example are three words I chose for this poem.  דם (dam) means blood, adding a letter to the beginning (remember Hebrew reads right to left) makes אדם (adam) which means human, and adding yet one more letter to the end makes אדמה (adamha)(the M looks different when not at the end of the word) which means soil.  In Jewish scripture man is made from soil, so these three words are related and their relationship a reminder of our mortality ..read more

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