Selected Poems

Publish has the root as publicize
Self-publishing

How the solar system works

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNirzatuZ5j/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The moon is warm tonight, not breeze
enough to stir the vanes of the wind mills
grouped  in groves of their own out beyond
the manicured lawns and stands of palms
which
 ring this landscaped spa oasis

Inspired by a Nicolai Gumilev poem (Жираф)       

https://alteritas.net/pastis/giraffes-at-san-gorgonio/

1968
Quail paella

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3586

Route 60 Navajo reservation

I don’t subscribe so can’t read it, but this did remind me of a poem I wrote in 1977. Please forgive my piggy-backing, but the coincidence was almost too much to bear: https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/

They snipped off my tubes

which promptly grew back.

The heart is fickle,

not gonads so much…

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/second-vasectomy/

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1471

A Young Man Loved a Woman

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1720

Gallowsong

First night matches

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=1731

+ german        

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2186

Temblor

  B among the consonants

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2576

Still lozeau

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2605

    

Tokens

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2635

Revising this lyric  has enabled me to stand again on that curb-side of the Boulevard St-Germain, angle Danton, renewing my futile desire for the anonymous woman who stood next to me before crossing through afternoon sunshine towards métro Odéon in late September, 1965.

What is the Good Life?

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2752

Chaparrral Sunseti

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=2954

Trigger warning haiku

https://alteritas.net/GXL/?p=3550

Phänomenologie der Liebe – Pastis @ Bandol

https://alteritas.net/pastis/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Drahtseilkunstler-PDF.pdf

Varnished Truth

Poetry is sometimes too much with us,

always tangling underfoot. Like kudzu

or the parachuting dandelion fluff

we superstitiously disperse with puffs,

poetry goes wild, turns weed….

https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/global-warning/

https://alteritas.net/pastis/chaparral-sunset-2/

Stay Dead , Natalie Shapero

https://www.threads.com/@profjalexanderart/post/DPURkqygGXm?xmt=AQF0rGc5rmA9u3VB6Lh9keDLKvfZwzqU8XYUYnMZY1eaMQ&slof=1

Erich Kơhler (1964. Observations historiques et sociologiques sur la poésie des troubadours, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 7: 27-51.

Thoma, Heinz. “POUR UNE SCIENCE HISTORICO-SOCIOLOGIQUE DE LA LITTÉRATURE: Quelques Remarques Sur l’œuvre d’Erich Köhler.” Littérature,    no. 43, 1981, pp. 100–15. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23801787. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

… class conflict between the dispossessed troubadour and the higher nobility, for whom he was

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