On February 21, 2011, my beloved aunt Joy died. This is my poem about that day.

My poem, The Cascades in Winter went live this week on Ellen King Rice’s project: Naked Came a Fungus.

Ten years ago, my buddy Richard La Rosa posted an online invitation to be part of a micro-fiction contest of 101 words (or less). Here was my entry—   At The Inn, 2030 The bar was filling up quickly with people escaping the rain. It had been a year now since we’d had sun, and drinking helped displace the fear. The WorldCorp Solar Project had failed for lack of rays; ditto most outdoor food crops. And the price of hydroponic food was exorbitant since we’d run out of easy oil. But basement beer hydro-farms were still cooking from stolen power, and nobody cared as long as we stayed off the…

My poem, Sixty, went live this week on “More Truly, More Strange, an Anthology of Poetry In Augmented Reality”. It’s a Snapchat-enabled project. Link, here. Here’s a written version: Sixty Standing in mist that autumn evening, waiting to go,  suddenly sixty snow geese overhead, a vast hushed company,  swirling clouds together. Muted wingbeats thrumming,  potent as a divination,  I could not leave them,  could not move as their wings brushed winds  upon my upturned face.   photograph: Snow Geese Flying by Ken Archer | Art.com

Two of my poems were chosen for inclusion in Black Mountain Press’ “The 64 Best Poets of 2018” international collection. I owe a profound debt of gratitude to poet Bruce Beasley for working with me on these poems, part of a manuscript that is currently out to publishers. Solicitation Come now. Pull me into you as wind lures leaves into a vortex, reeling. My skin remembers fingers trailing and the touch of someone’s tongue. If you push your breath across my wrists, I’ll feel your most sacrificial secrets brush me. Betrayal and devotion, both. I will allow your breathing message to be borne to me the way a tiger carries…