One of our writing colleagues has been after me to write this prose version of my unbelievable story.

Now that some of my poetry is being distributed to a wider audience, his position, narrowed down to a single point, “Yer never gonna earn anything writing poetry, especially YOUR poetry, which…

You gotta wonder

how anyone would be

shocked,

(“SHOCKED I tell you!)

to hear that magical thinking,

roiling through the brains

of people with sub-optimal

intelligence, imagination

and child-like needs

to avoid the frightening truths

of reality,

would be

anything other than

susceptible

to cons, idiocy

and all forms

of…

“Oh My God”

After avoiding

cold, dark winters

for the last

six years

by living in

our Tucson home,

we’ve just arrived back north again,

90 miles south of Canada,

to our home in Spokane.

It’s about 20 degrees outside

and everyone says

that this has been one of the

…

It’s been so long,

since Kevin Conway

dropped me as a friend

that I must accept

that the Kevin I miss

is probably not

the same guy with whom

I had smart, funny, good times

so many years ago

talking about writing, politics,

women, life, etc..

That Kevin is

no…

What I'm about to say will sound facetious but I'm totally sincere and appreciative of this terrific explanation. "Fractals" is a word I love the sound of and I have a wild, historical relationship to Geometry, all of it BAD. You are behaving like a good, patient friend. Thanks for that brother.

So I asked my good friend,

who I admire as a writer,

a fine journalist in the best sense

of that craft,

(not quite as much an artist in the

classic differentiation and admittedly pretentious,

high falutin’ distinction),

what he thought of

the paintings of Jackson Pollok.

He answered without…