Blog 2017

It Is Difficult to Get the News From Poems...
...In this commitment we would advance our fullest humanity by the truth-telling folds and jump-off spaces of lines that would cling to the beating hearts of those wanting to know they are not just another blank page in an empty world. They are Somebody. They are All of Us.

Limerick 60

Limerick 58
58.
Bannon should also just shut up and
realize good journalists always stand
up for the truth
knowing which Brutes
are the real Swamp of the Hinterland

Limerick 57
57.
Kellyanne Conway and Göring
share something of a red herring:
An excess of penchant
for dead-ending questions—
exposing false tongues’ forked daring.

Limerick 46
46.
The hacks never happened, he said.
So put away your Cold War dread.
I'll see about Putin--
There'll be no disputin'
the cards are all played far ahead.

"Map 1" Published in Caliban #26
A mixed media piece I did in collaboration with Tom Cassidy was just published in CALIBAN #26. Click on the page link above to view.

Limerick 45
In solidarity with the millions of women--and those who love them--who marched for human rights today in Washington D.C. and cities across the United States and throughout the World. Bravo.
45.
Progressives got such a fright
as though they had lost their light—
It was devolution
called for revolution
to set future courses aright.

Radio Leigh: The Hive is Alive: Thoughts and Song for the Post-Inaugural Women's March on Washington

Limerick 26
26.
He said he’d denounce such Elements—
But aren’t They really the Elephants
standing before us,
Beautiful Chorus
of White Supremacist Sycophants?