Poet Tree

Dr. Seuss trees are native to this region But the indigenous in caves put the curse on anyway, Even the flightless cormorants -- whose babie...

The surfers of Encinitas loll like seals on their Ghosts As the channelers look out to sea like fisherman’s wives, The endless horizon ever ...

People can talk sometimes about something besides Themselves, what has been done to them. They can transcend the relief of their belief Into...

Golden Gate’s veiled --  half mist, half mast, The way the living navigate above the dead, Remembering what we are As we turn into something...

There is no God inside this Temple Despite the mournful incense And the throes of organ torments And bent string notes in the light  Of the ...

1. The diaspora. It always has to be this way, To let so much steam of wit escape  From the stream of the river gods And follow the quays to...

Dublin burns the eyes on arrival It minds With its own peculiar watchfulness  That wants to know and not be noticed. The gentlest of flies w...

Crows by the river Kennett That flows to the Thames That brings all the codes, Remembering, through London. It's the Holy Bourne Spring ...

Through Traitor's Gate I went straight for the Ravens, The guardians of all of England, Who carry the dead to the next world And break t...

The church remembers wasted deaths With our lion and unicorn family crest, The last of the Saxons According to the Barking nuns. The king-si...

The poets are in the leaves Not in any abbey. The city is as mute as a swan But gardens have a lot to say. The gulls circle the fountains In...

If you have a breast      You have a witches' hat. It's as simple as that.      The rope is quick and painless But the scars acquire...

These places were just shit holes Until Hollywood ruined them. Salem was nothing but tannery wreckage Until Bewitched came to town And now ...

" Give em Heaven" - Matt 5:16 I'm so concerned to be myself I can't see myself  Even though "Literature Only"  I...

Smog rainbow in the distance glowing with the flow As the universe forms a rooster tail behind the barge That plows through mermaid central,...

The Ted Fay Fly Shop lures you in To the Angler Inn Next to Rapunzel’s Castle. Another town that time forgot, More pink shutters, Another re...

At the Dino Mart in Gustine The consequence of making an alien baby Back in the dust of Bakersfield Was revealed, as we became The children ...

The light codes fall from Mt Shasta Over Mossbrae and on down To Sacramento as sacramental water And to the galactic realms below The Hollyw...

I. Selma Tattoo Marks “The Raison Capital of the World” Who heard Fresno Through the Grapevine And stole the sign For the Sun Maid. II. Mada...

I was able to send out a nuclear bomb Of room-clearing ground zero love Like a parcel dropped at the crime scene motel On the way out of mor...