Category Archives: Poetry

Four Photos and a Poem

I’ve not really be all that productive/creative lately. I’ve had a tiny spurt. We’ll see where this goes.







And here is the poem…


      	baptized in 
      	the mud
     of main street
     mother's milk

      	from dust storms
eyes caked
      	and coughed
rich 
      	soil for weeks

	these open skies
	bleed wet, 
     skeleton
	hang flesh

for everything is
stagnant or stale

     inside 
     i kept
     secrets
from
rain

	every drop
		cursing

     promises i 
     never made
	she kept
	and found
avenue to 
path

rails 	between
	raindrops

should we
follow this line
     through contour of
 	land
through twelve
miles of kansas
     eight states
     away three 
	hours

bathed in the blood
of desert rain
clouds screaming fire
	drying eyes
held hands fast
	to this
concrete 
ribbon a lifetime

new poem: february/march

It’s been months and months since I last wrote anything. I jotted this down quickly and here it is. I should be sleeping, but here it is.

february/march

    we will 
wait for our 
dreams
    and feel the    
land 
beneath our skies

roads to 
twist spiderweb 
      veins 
over america
losing these days
to 
   time


         motions, 
these black eyes
    watch hungry
several moments 
and begging
        to catch

a smile lost like
lightening  
      this crown
and these jewels

this ritual fell 
   unhanded
   with 
trees bare all 
             for
a stale room and 
   cold

every light on
but yours

New poem = Convalescence


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[clicks make biggers]

Three new poems

It’s been dry lately. Nothing much has been coming to the surface. And what is coming is being pushed and even forced by me. Painful process, I guess.

So anyway, here are my three newest.

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If you’d like to read poems from my newest book (passage.) – go here.

Devotees on MySpace? VW Buses. Oh, and a new poem about Ratha Yatra

Hey! Welcome to October! It’s getting chilly at nights and maybe it’s time to throw on that extra blanket. I personally love sleeping with the window open in the Fall if I can curl up with an extra fluffy blanket. But then there’s winter. We’ll not go there. Winter and I do not get along.

MySpace.
Anyway, with recently being added to Planet ISKCON, I’m assuming that at least a few more devotees are reading my blog… or at least noticing that it exists.

So I thought I’d toss my MySpace page out there. It’s here.

Do what you like with that.

VW Buses.
My friend Elisabeth told me that a Srila Prabhupada letter was posted yesterday on the blog Prabhupada Letters that mentioned VW Buses. Specifically, Srila Prabhupada said, “These Volkswagen buses are very nice.”

And yes, Srila Prabhupada, I whole-hearted agree. These Volkswagen buses are very nice! However, These Volkswagen buses’ transmission are very expensive. My bus is still in the shop and if it turns out to be the transmission (as opposed to the clutch), it will cost me $1500. And that’s roughly $1500 more than I have.

The first automobile that Srila Prabhupada rode in when he came to America was a VW Bus. It took him from Boston to Butler, PA. How about that.

Poem.
Also, as the regulars know, I write poems. My newest is about Ratha-yatra. I can’t say that it’s all that deep or that some amazing kaviraj realizations are flowing forth. But it is … whatever it is.

It’s called “Auspicious” and it’s not for everybody. But maybe you’ll like it.

Click on it to make it bigger, if you please.

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Six of one of another (New Pics and Poem)

Six new pics.
(click to see, ok?)

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And the poem…

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New poem: Fit

I wrote one the other day – over two days, I think – and here it is.

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