Long Prospectus Poems

(a university-life vignette)

It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for Lisa—who’s running late. This is...

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Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral, 
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spirit goes beyond the urban confines yet included,
the riot of revelry induced...

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Brothers Cousins Sister Aunts
one hundred people 
Ten dollars per week each
One thousand dollars per week 

As a group
Fifty two thousand dollars per year
I spoke to a Manager of a nursing home
who stated 

"Administration costs would...

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      Butterfly bless dances from flower to flower, 
sipping nectar with its slender proboscis imitating Bacchus with prospectus,
direct to us.

Streaks in the open air with flagrant color, 
as the morning...

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Executive- My powers are absolute,
                    thus I am totalitarian.
       ...

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        We are not accidental like a spill,
                incidentals, we are Elementals 
...

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There’s an important meeting
on the upcoming shark calendar itinerary
A prospectus offer from a suitor company
demands an improper greeting
The boss lady wanna know
who’s gonna lead the negotiating envoy
Carry the corporate banner
for this back channel acquisition ploy
But...

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The Living Water

“13LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the...

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You want it all.

The lakes and tar sands

Fresh water and fish

Arctic diamonds

Pipelines that confine

The caribou

And make the hunt ridiculous.

Forests for the churning

Of lusty, gossip press

And row houses

Like card houses

In six figure excess.

You set the price

You...

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He is an old pan man and knows how to pan
Finding gold is easy, the tricky one is diamond
A diamond in the rough is a crude old stone
But the one he would polish would be...

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The funeral was a surprise to all 
writers

Bury me!!!

Poetry shouted

Bury me and leave no trace



If pen lost ground and laid 
beneath

Then this hand too belong with 
wreath

 

Words drifting in dark attractive 
walls protecting poetry's insights



Drag...

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If our life is spent using kind words we find our kind words help us gather friends
and one day, when we need them most, those kind words pay dividends.

This year we had a friend who...

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Can you grasp the thunder?
Can you hide its flashes from an overflowing river?
Can you pay your river Life a hideous win?
Can you call yourself a mercenary who is stained?

I want to tag you under the...

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After sixteen years
How does one say bye?
How do you let go?
Not of them
But the company
To embrace loneliness
And say bye
How?
How do you refuse a silent bye bye

To no one but the closer ones

I’ll play a façade,...

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An excerpt from my new short story:

After Adolf received Alois' final inheritance in 1913, he moved to Munich, Germany. During his Vienna years living in squalor, Adolf was keenly interested in the makeup of Vienna's...

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Take your spades to cracking
my ribs and plunging
hands in the tar
to find the prize
I stowed
to forget,
so I kept beat.

My eyes'll roll
and I can't direct.

I beg my soul to rebirth
it's trust
for you
for me
for a future.

All the...

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Hang on, You're nearly There!
I'm giddy, spinning around, 
So near, yet so far.
On the slippery spinning
dip of serendipity. 
Making do with the hoodoo of déjà vu.
I've seen that scene before!
On endless recycles
of somewhere when and...

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I was born like any man
And look how different we use the day
To toll our lives against the sand
Through hour glass running away
In sterile classrooms fettered to pride
I wasted my years to hear men say
There...

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