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07/29/2025 Meditation on a Tree Falling in a Forest (with a little help from mentors) poem.
A tree falls in a forest ripples the forest air "There is no 'out there' out there" --- John Wheeler though one Blackbird among twenty...
Jul 291 min read
07/08/2025. Four Short Poems: "Shush, Shush" (with a little help from Marie Howe) "Faint Hearts," "For Wallace," and "Dream House"
Been messing with these on Facebook for a while. Will probably mess with them more. Shush, Shush I asked myself Who am I? The boughs made...
Jul 82 min read
Who am I and Why? vs What am I and How? 4/28/2025 (draft)
Who am I and Why? vs What am I and How? [1] There may be a useful analogy between the way individuals develop maturity and the way...
Apr 283 min read
11/06/2024. It Doesn't Matter. It's Over. Excerpt from my novel "The Reality Mechanic." Oddly appropriate?
Gordon Povich and Charlie Hartley of late had become chums, and after the therapy session they decided to stop over at the Tip A Few Bar...
Nov 7, 20243 min read
10/13/2024. Theocracy and the Constitution: two stories.
Pilgrimage: 2024 The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors...
Oct 9, 20245 min read
06/04/2024. HOWL (OR SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM)
For my teleplay "Tuna in Pooderville," I wrote a parody of Alan Ginsberg's poem HOWL Terri, Tuna's beatnik sister, offers a passionate...
Jun 5, 20241 min read
05/16/2024. Republicans and Democrats and the Seeds of Division
If you believe that America is best described as a purposeful expression of historical achievements by certain culture, and race, and as...
May 16, 20242 min read
05/03/2024. A Far Bird Creaks Beneath the Broad Banality of Heaven (poem)
Beneath the Broad Banality of Heaven a far-bird creaks beneath a broad banality of heaven my grandfather sits alone in the back seat...
May 3, 20241 min read
04/11/2024. More on Artificial Intelligence and its Threat to Human Agency. Read a Poem. Paint a Guitar. Dance!
The human capacity for creativity is a survival adaption that evolved as a form of self-therapy. Religion’s communal theater being just...
Apr 11, 20241 min read
04/01/2024) Wild Geese in the West (poem)
Wild Geese in the West (final draft) I watch them through the kitchen window swarming in the blue immensity beyond the dwindling winter...
Apr 2, 20241 min read
12/30/2023 Angels in America (poem)
Begin the day naturally And eyes bitten out of stone Cast another glance toward the bay. Then you get a clear clean sound Drums beating...
Dec 30, 20231 min read
07/21/2023. Back to the Future (Part 2). Excerpt from my screenplay "Tuna in Pooderville".
Considering the current media attention given to ChatGPT, VR, and artificial intelligence in general, I thought that this scene from from...
Jul 21, 20235 min read
05/25/2023. Artificial Intelligence. Back to the Future (Blog)
I wrote "Back to the Future" because I wrote the following over twenty years ago. The first two are excerpts from my book The Reality...
May 25, 20233 min read
04/20/2023. In Defense of Artful Ambiguity in Poetry (Blog)
Regarding my poems “Grace” and more recently “Buddha Nature,” a few friends have asked, some jokingly, some more seriously: “What do they...
Apr 20, 20232 min read
03/27/2023, Two years-ago today, at 10:45 in the morning.
Two years-ago today, at 10:45 in the morning, my late wife, Veronica Powell, was struck by a truck while walking near Harvey Park. She...
Mar 27, 202310 min read
03/04/2023 New Mexico, New Mexico, Yucca, Yucca (lyrics)
New Mexico, New Mexico, Yucca, Yucca. I’m so far behind in my plans. It’ll be an Indian reservation, or BLM for me tonight. The map says...
Mar 4, 20231 min read
07/16/2022. Nature Bath. (In Memory)
The wind squeezed through the trees. It felt strange to be present in a space Making God one with us. The path was carpeted with yellow...
Jul 16, 20221 min read
06/24/2022. Saving Babies
Roe v Wade: Welcome to the Dark Age of American Theocracy (Working draft) "They have passed laws without any exceptions for when the...
Jun 25, 20224 min read
05/26/2022. Son of Man. (Poem)
Son of Man "Upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." --- Derek Wolcott Conjured from a dark sea I offer my dry breath. Call me...
May 26, 20221 min read
05/14/2022. The Constitution and the Bible and Roe v. Wade.
The Constitution and the Bible The Founders would not have created a form of government in which people are expected to govern...
May 14, 20229 min read
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