Selected Poems
Publish has the root as publicize
Self-publishing
How the solar system works
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)
1968 i
Quail paella
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…
A Young Man Loved a Woman
Gallowsong
First night matches
+ german
Temblor
B among the consonants
Still lozeau
Tokens
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?
Chaparrral Sunset
Trigger warning haiku
Phänomenologie der Liebe – Pastis @ Bandol
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….
Research shows it’s the cumulative number and intensity of head impacts, not just concussions, that increase risk. This is especially true in kids. Prevention starts early, with things like reducing full-contact football drills or moving towards more flag football.
Stay Dead , Natalie Shapero
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 writing.