AFTERNOON TEA I was going to put a kettle of water on to boil to make myself a cup of tea, but I became distracted by the shrinking ice caps and how the polar bears would soon have no place to live. I grabbed a bottle of whiskey instead and wandered out to the garden. […]
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The Third Day of Bigfoot
BIGFOOT LOVES TO DRIVE IN L.A. REDUX I would like to thank someone for adding concrete poetry to my drive home. And no, ineffable does not refer to the pope. Sorry, but I can’t tell you what it does means — it’s just too sacred. THE NEXT BIG THING REDUX – TJ BEITELMAN I missed […]
Gracias Tres Gatos!
THANK YOU SCOTT DOYLE, for pulling together an amazing evening of tapas, family and friends at Tres Gatos, Scott’s brother’s cool neighborhood tapas joint in Jamaica Plains, Mass. THANK YOU AWP, for an excuse to visit Boston. THANK YOU GLOBAL WARMING, for an awesome birthday blizzard. THANK YOU GODS OF THE ALPHABET for random authorial […]
Old/New Poems in Literal Latte
There is a special place in my heart for poems from long ago. I submitted some poems to Literal Latte in 2009, and just heard back from them this month, about 3 years later. But check this out: In less then 2 weeks, the poems are up on the website. Talk about fast! Literal Latte […]
The Second Day of Bigfoot
The other night I had a dream that there was a big glass window across the entire back of my house, and I could see across my back yard to a cabin in the woods. Through the cabin’s large picture window, I could see a gorilla and a bear sitting together on a couch watching […]
When Allen Ginsberg Was a Coyote
YOWL I saw the beast minds of my generation yip yelp yawl Starving frenzied fur matted with mud Dragging themselves through LA streets at dawn Looking for a hotblooded fix while Pedigreed Labradoodles heavy-lidded in bon bone paradise Lay curled on embroidered pillows in the flatscreen glow. Coyote freaks baring their tender throats to yellow […]