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Poem up at Convergence

Thanks to the editors at Convergence for publishing “The Fruit.” It’s one of a series, “Naming the Animals.”

Toward the end of my usual walk in Venice, I was confronted by a graffitied warning, on Hampton Drive: GET…

Five weeks ago, a carefully arranged still life appeared on a nearby street. It consisted of a bike frame, a…

I am reading Bashō, Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Narrow Road recounts Bashō’s late-17th century…

Tonight, thankfully, it’s raining. About time. L.A. supposedly saw off a brutal drought a year ago. Then came last year’s…

I’ve begun recording poems I’ve published over the last thirty years. I’d like to post unpublished work too, but most…

Thanks to Eclectica for carrying two of my poems, “Naming the Poisons” and “When the Garden Burns,” (Winter/Spring 2018). Both…

Since last summer, I’ve been reading Alphabet, a collection from the late Danish poet Inger Christensen, alongside Alexander Theroux’s The…

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A couple of days ago, I finished reading Joe Brainard’s I Remember. It’s been used as a model for kids…