Health Immigration Poems

Alas, my sweet child you shan't!
Get used to an insane, world of can't!
Our brilliant brains are fully scrubbed,
As sniling and kids in a foaming bath.
Rub-y-dee,...

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Perhaps immigration is our big US national anxiety
because we don't know how to unilaterally abort
cancerous growth of matricide.

Too much to even think about
at a merely...

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Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker,
he was harvesting sweet potatoes on
Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, 
North Carolina on September 5, 2023.
The temperature was...

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Fact Or Fool Who be You

I have seen
fools ranting 
what's up Pink Floyd
No thinkers, no education 
only poets with muse and frustration

The deniers of science
are...

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When Corona came, I was on Reunion Island
Indian Ocean environs, nearer native South Africa ...
Transplanted, I have planted a garden, thrived

Without any research, butternuts survived
But...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Moving out feels much sadder
than moving in, more gladder--
which is poor grammar
for severance of love's embodied glamour.

Packing up
feels more like packing in
and down,
cutting ties with...

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Locked In

The walls all around, 
are not what is doing me under. 
It is not the lack of air, 
food or needed sustenance…
It is not...

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The Crowned Dead

The growing of green things, 
should concern all of us. 
The fires burning in far lands, 
can still reach US(a). 
There are all...

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Careless Thoughts

Honest whispers, 
from somewhere unseen. 
Things we should not, 
dwell upon. 
Life's mistakes, 
sometimes, 
without…
“Do Overs”.

Punished in this world, 
saved in the next. 
God...

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When you have a gun and they don’t 
and you're  a cop, it takes a certain kind of heartless cowardice
to squeeze the trigger
it takes...

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24 Days of Praise

Thankful for the day, 
In every way, 
I bow my head, 
and bend my knee. 

My family is fed. 
No one is...

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II.
A politician just said to her crowd
what need have we for a border?
It’s a good thing to help poor folks in need,
we should let them...

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Numbers

We strive to change our place in life, 
to keep up with our neighbors.
Why? Because we have been taught, it is expected. 
It is not....

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Oh say, did you notice
a national predative anthem?
Moving immediately
urgently,
without reflection of starlight 
sent or received,

From waving flags predicting elite weapons
fueled by complexly masculine 
emasculating
militarized corporate...

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