Poet Express, Spring 2007

PROLIFIC

 

she drives a Smith Corona

smashing through blockades

 

she finds the switch

that lights her mind

 

and once again turns words

into sparks and even stars

 

that burn the page and

shout across the night

 

 

LYNX XXII:1 February 2007

can you hear them

typewriters…

jazz…

no sober poet wanders

beneath these city lights

 

Word Riot, January 2007

phantoms

outside-

the marquee lights

attract black moths

actors, dancers and musicians

the auditions have begun

 

inside-

the stage is lit

by the pallor of

gothic operatic types

posing in the balcony

Stylus Poetry Journal, September 2006

wonder is written
across the young girl’s face
a storyteller’s gift

Poet Express, Autumn 2006

player

he mastered
the equations of chance

then cut the deck
with a hopeful hand

and the sense
to ride momentum

beyond the nearest
neon star

Howl turns 50

The fall of 1956 saw the publication of Allen Ginsburg’s Howl and Other Poems. Visit the City Lights Books site dedicated to this landmark event, including a History of Howl, Howl on Trial, and a list of Howl celebrations.

http://www.citylights.com/His/CLhowl.html

Lily, v.3 n.11 October 2006

this morning she is

writing lyrics
in the dust
on parked cars
in the city

she schemes
a means to catch
a dying star
tonight

she lives
beyond her reason
and the boundaries
of her dream

Tanka Café, Summer 2006 v.2 no.2

hot summer night-
jazz poets in the kitchen
his Underwood on fire
her pencil moves at speed of mind
eraser burning

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Lily, v.3 n.2 January 2006

for the beats