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PETERS CANYON, MARCH 2020 I’ve walked this canyon for 25 years. Water once filled the reservoir irrigated citrus orchards attracted birds: Tri-colored blackbirds with vibrant orange stripes, hummingbirds, egrets and herons, hawks and the occasional eagle, migratory ducks and geese. In March, 1995, a naturalist pointed out a Western Blue Jay. Through binoculars I saw … Read more
DISAPPOINTMENT AT 9 A.M. after Wallace Stevens’ “Disillusionment at Ten O’Clock” The H.O.V. lane is moving again. No one sees what I see, but I see a thing or two that’s not true about the people in the cars merging to inch past and past. Not one of them listens to old sailors on the … Read more
I BELIEVE I DON’T MANIFESTO I am an internationally recognized body-positive activist an ESL writer who abandoned a size 32-30 size jeans to twist and shout in fat and brown parades I worship muscle men of ill repute as they decompose exploited by the porno industrial war complex When I take my meds I recite … Read more
THE SOFTNESS But when I talk about loneliness I’m talking about softness & when I talk about softness I’m talking about being a big man, so I’m talking about at least the suggestion of violence, the way I like to wear my hair & my beard, & this fractious Russian monk’s face, which I’ve … Read more
LOVE POEM FOR TRADE #2 I wish you would call me a bitch and take me over your knee but I’m too shy to ask. I bring my dad up in conversation a little too often. When you pulled out a crackpipe I warned you I was impressionable. You laughed at me and the gaps … Read more