Palisades Poems

DUMPSTER FIRE

...
                          Broke dumpster fire in Los Angeles !
                          Burnt vigorous Pacific Palisades.
                                         Apocalyptic !
                ...

Mudminnow Trout

...Arboreal chum noodle trunk gesticulating 
Male pattern baldness syndrome squiggles 
Trigonometry Palisades uneven ripple

Framework salmon people 
Rise evangelical steeple 
Pigmentation feeble ...

Palisade Palestine

...Palisades					      Palestine


Raging fires					Raging fires
mansions destroyed				Babies burned
a million tears					the dead cannot cry
the winds are whispering			the bombs are laughing
who ...

Amish, Hasids, and Mormons

...A madman pushed me off the track, lucky not much harm
I sat in the Hospital waiting room with just a broken arm.
They handed me a form to fill, 20 genders, 10 types of race -
I tore the sheet with...

Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

...Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though...

Embers of Change The Palisades

...In the shadow of the Palisades, where fire ambers flicker and burn/
  cities ignite, nevermore to excite never to return/
 neighborhoods wrapped in a storm, memories won't fade/
 evacuate, evacuat...

OH HELL ON EARTH IS HERE

...OH HELL ON  EARTH IS HERE!

The fire next time...
is now here with its ember...,
soaring through the skies…

Evacuation
has become from hell to hell
in the palisades…

Flames of hell on ear...

These graves

...#These_graves
Wait! Am I stepping on someone's grave? no one seems to answer, but the bowing of their head down, gives me the actual answer, that's pain forcing their heads down. Where should I step...

The Fort, In Days of Old

...The paddlewheel unloads people,
tourists who were out on a cruise,
above the docks and the gift shops
the brown palisades come in view.

(The canoes draw up on the beach,
Iroquois out looking t...

Nonsensical Scents

...In the hari-kari palisades
    drink of choice, lemonade
  Enter the lion-plated stadium
    a cache discovered, puranium 

  Up here, down there, all's a riot
    in the center, suffocation-qu...

The Life For Me

...For far shires beyond the western red sun
  I’m leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud -
to journey across the far horizon
  where cockatoos in bloodwoods sing aloud.
Trading in my black si...

Singerisland

...A lovely walk, a promenade leads the way
Burnt orange succulents stand like bushes serene
Crushed tepid deep, whitewash stirs up behind the scenes
Delightful blends of blue sky in-between
Entwine...

Idee Fixe

...don't even think about it
a bucket of motel ice in the face
proving the thing in itself does not exist
because he registered all the meanings all the time
with a nausea so profound 
the retching...

A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley

...A Search, A Quest For A Lost Paradise - 
a collaboration with Susan Ashley


I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be fre...

A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley

...I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be free
beyond sadness, into a joyful sea
to a purple land, a paradise realm
I hopef...

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