Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roofout my window across the street, a bird perched on the crosssurveys the city’s blue-grey clouds. Larry Rivers‘ll come at 10 AM…
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I’d wash my dirty IranI’d throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, scrub up Africa, put all…
Elan that lifts me above the cloudsinto pure space, timeless, yea eternalBreath transmuted into words Transmuted back to breath in one hundred two hundred yearsnearly Immortal, Sappho’s 26 centuriesof cadenced breathing —…
When I dieI don’t care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter ’em in East Riverbury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey, B’nai Israel CemeteryBut l want…
O dear sweet rosy unattainable desire …how sad, no way to change the mad cultivated asphodel, the visible reality… and skin’s appalling petals–how inspired to be…
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun?At last inquisitive Whitman a modern epic, detonative, Scientific themeFirst penned unmindful by Doctor Seaborg with…
Drinking my teaWithout sugar- No difference. The sparrow shits upside down–ah! my brain & eggs Mayan head in aPacific driftwood bole–Someday I’ll live in N.Y. Looking over my shouldermy behind was coveredwith cherry blossoms. Winter HaikuI…
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986 Stand up against governments, against God. Stay irresponsible. Say only what we know & imagine. Absolutes are coercion. Change is absolute.…
I speak of love that comes to mind:The moon is faithful, although blind;She moves in thought she cannot speak.Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so…