YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Topic

Our neighbors to the east, the Shoebill bird. On the eastern side of Africa The humans see a strangeness  To the huge and oddly-shaped  Beak of the Shoebill,  And so the tall bird resembles W.C....

One day it will be your turn, too.

And that day the pancakes will be perfect.

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And that day the pancakes will be perfect.

10.7.2025

Birds fled from me, and night invaded me with her powerful force.*  . Earthworms dug deeper because I had walked by.  The storm changed course and went around me.  I was an earthquake with two leg...

-notebook droppings-

YouTube video by Alison Brown

Your depression is connected to your insolence and your refusal to praise.*  Don't bother asking for directions; there aren't any.  And that's a good thing.  Not being clear about right and wrong  ...

YouTube video by Joe Cocker - Topic

or the Gospel of Matthew.

“Poets dwell on death,” some fool will say.

This is not some fish story.  Don't assume that I am dead. Yes, I look rough,  but everything still works. Just somewhat more slowly, that's all.  If my failures were bison there would be a stamped...

In the south, sleeping against the drugstore, growling under the trucks and stoves, stumbling through and over the cluttered eyes of early mysterious…

YouTube video by Robert W. Roddis, Esq.

“Poets dwell on death,” some fool will say.

The monstrous factories thrive upon the markets of the war. *  Go to the time-clock and punch in; it is time to go  to work, my friend. There is blood yet to spill and profit  yet to glean from the...

YouTube video by Etta James - Topic

3.6.2026

Why are the dogs walking on their hind legs like hairy men?

A hundred thousand poems of praise. ‘ Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. - Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi . You can build a wall, but it won't keep the hate out,  or hold the love in. It's ...

--no need for wealth or position--

Yes, a stink has blown into this town, and people, for the most part, deserve it. A stink that is nasty. No one is kind anymore. Can you see that we need to go down? Jesus handed out the loaves and f...

big surely bastards

three prose-poems

All afternoon I held her close in a room full of doors.  Some of the doors opened one way, some another. Several were closed and locked. The room was cold, like eels, like the empty places in a human...

three prose-poems

Our feast, at last.  You want to turn and see me there in the field,  among the even rows of corn and tomatoes. And you want for me to become like a vegetable,  rooted in this rich soil, and growi...

poems & prose poems

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post surgery nonsense

poems & prose poems

Rocks, carved by time and the wind.  Bare ground where once there was a vast and wild ocean. Your full and hairy nakedness, under wispy clouds back-lit by the sun. I want to be the rain, washing your...

post surgery nonsense

valley oaks & rain

YouTube video by John Coltrane

I've built a house from the walls of my scars.  Look at the house that I built from the walls of my scars.  I lived with what was left to me,  That which I left for myself; it wasn't pretty.  I ha...

I've built a house from the walls of my scars.  Look at the house that I built from the walls of my scars.  I lived with what was left to me,  That which I left for myself; it wasn't pretty.  I ha...

The glass that holds the ocean. Inside of this old body are one thousand snakes, and each one of them wants to strike and kill.  But also, in this same body, are one thousand swans, and they only wa...