The primary function

of the present day Republican party

is to STOP any and all progress or change.

Doing nothing is not enough for them;

stopping others from doing anything

is equally important.

Most supporters of the GOP

don’t consider their

out-loud assertions

that people of color

are getting too…

Part 1.

George Harrison
said that when it’s time to die
How many records you’ve made or songs
You’ve written isn’t going to matter.

In fact, he claimed that
Many of the best songs
He’d ever made, he never wrote down
And never recorded.
He was a Beatle, of course.
He also said “Once you’ve…

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…

Epic Poetry

An Epic Poem of Love and Loss

I.

1.

Lindy felt the early tugs,
Her, womb becoming
tidal and loud,
the fetus, turning, crying out
a tiny beast. A braying sigh.

He calls to her.
He calls to her.

And his voice moves against her flesh,
an undulation,
his kick a caress.
His…