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I’ve been writing poetry since 16 years of age and despite losing two large refrigerator boxes full of pressed down full composition books, pages, scraps, receipts, along with watercolors and canvass board oils, graphite drawings and sketches, series of sharpie drawings, original and not typed or photographed tens of thousands of poems and artwork due to a leaking studio and mold, the typed and saved poems now number 1,500+ on 1,100+ pages, and hopefully the original poems and books temporarily buried in a PowerBook Pro from logic board death will be recoverable and boost the amount on external hard drives by a bit. I have been actively exploring ways to express using whatever forms that I “invent” or explore, such as “Poetical Pills” which form I invented as a structurally binding way to present each of the Spirits and Entities contained in my book Spirits and Entities of the World, only to discover some are already recognized forms, while also writing response poems whose form evolves out of the mix of daily doings whilst reading Whitman—Greyhound Grass of 23 pages, Dickinson—And Out Went Plath, Emerson—Nature Sings coffee table art book, Silverstein—Eggsalad, Children’s Books, Geisel—Lorax-Approved Environmental Commentary poems, Beatrix, Poe, Solomon—Love Poetry in Trees of Love coffee table art book, etc., and may tend to mimic or “sound” or resemble slightly those poets’ voices or devices.

  May 2021     9 months ago

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Amtrak 3

Strange how the color drains nearly empty from the morning sky before the tangerine sun even peeks above the lavender-purplish horizon….

Akin to how the color also drains as the sun sets on a much darker violet-purplish horizon after the...

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Amtrak 2

William Doty and I watched the sunrise, another mythography yielding to the possible closing of Amtrak, while a family of four, younger son and older daughter, three amigos and a gentleman feeling older than his days would dictate joined us,...

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Amtrak 1

Changing scenery, always something new, from white frosty pea green (sea foam) shrubbery as former coral cousins—desert tundra replacing teeming seabed, to red, orange and yellows of brilliantly painted earth like the blood of Orpheus sprayed across...

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Mythology Definition Numero Uno

Myths, as living stories,
free us from our surround
while fastening us to it—
depending partially upon the environment
and interpretation or translation—
usually center on deities or spirits—
responsible for creation or the creation of...

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Yin Yang

When firstly the two commas,
One light the other heavy
(Each bearably part of the other
enjoined in a many-dimensional helix),
Joined in mutual attraction,
Like two sperm [or eggs with hair
if you prefer] of opposites,
The land paused to...

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