Knit and Purl

I talk through you & filter subjects
Little sunsets flare out from your wings
Our words burn out
Pondering surface tension
Kicking eggs into oxygen
A new fragmented experience
They talk through you -  abrasive notions
Your wings fold back
Having no home
Gravity guides freefall
Reason can be a string of logical ideas
Or a person perched above an oyster’s pearl

Walkman

My poems mosey wayward
Order a double whiskey
Dousing flames with petrodollars
A canon of words
Feuds with the jukebox
I spur
When the poems start stumbling
Preferring a Walkman to talking

Musical Notes

Everyone says they have the best sex
Like they’ve planned a grand opera
Speaking in symphonies
Are little crumpled up musical notes
Lying beneath your crumpled up clothes
Waiting to be used – incompletely decomposed

The Culture of Make-Believe – Derrick Jensen

Exploring the manifestations of social hatred (from lynchings to the Holocaust to Iraq and beyond) from a deep ecology-minded perspective, Derrick Jensen condemns the current System in a fast-paced narrative.  It is critical to understand the deeper, questionable machinations that control social patterns and impact the well-being of ourselves and our planet.  This book also explores the problem of an apathetic populace and the corporate domination of every sector of life as humanity stumbles onwards towards its great cosmic destiny.

Free Cell -Anselm Berrigan Anselm Berrigan’s free radical poetry chops your hands off mid-line, drops the book into your lap, and caresses you with disquiet indie pop allusions and echoes of ubiquitous advertising absurdities as it cheers on that last ill-intentioned pint before the crestfallen exit from the pub on a Monday night while ambitiously and unambiguously telling you it might not be OK, but I wouldn’t know anyway.  This small tome, published by City Lights Press, features three poems worthy of multiple sittings.  All of Anselm Berrigan’s work is highly recommended; Integrity & Dramatic Life and Some Notes on My Programming are essential must-haves.

Free Cell at City Lights Press

The Last Man (series) This comic book series imagines a future where half of the population immediately drops dead…leaving only women behind the wheel of Spaceship Earth.  There remains, however, one man and his male pet monkey to save/perpetuate the world as they knew it.  Israeli spies, Amazon women, mad scientists, government agents, and women, many women, comprise some of the cast of this engaging graphic novel adventure.