Poetry
April 1, 2015
First I will honor your name. Just as�those colonists first used, then abused�then tried to exterminate those whose�land they coveted, so you squat leering�at our homes, our bodies, our air… READ MORE
November 1, 2014
There is no oppression. Just lean�in to the corporate machine, become�part of its vast personhood. You too�every one of you can be a millionaire�if you just try harder, gaze upward…. READ MORE
January 1, 2014
� The hatred of the poor, is it guilt � gone rancid? That the rich have � so much and still conspire to steal � a baby’s medicine, a woman’s… READ MORE
May 1, 2013
� How gorgeous is the snow and deadly.�The roads are gone under its drifts.�Hundreds of thousands without power�in a frozen world where the wind�howls like a pack of coywolves. �… READ MORE
October 1, 2012
Grandfather on the George Washington Bridge 1 From this height seedpodsfallen from naked cliffhanging treesspeckle the palisades.Water wrangles the shore,deliberates, decides, controls.From this height the Hudson’sfalse promisescurdle her edges, milk… READ MORE
September 1, 2012
Unemployed: soon invisible,�after a while, unemployable,�unwanted, with your future�eroding along with confidence,�sense of self, the family�cracking along old fault lines.�And what do you do? Age. � Out of work: out… READ MORE
May 1, 2012
The poor are no longer with us � � No one’s poor any longer. Listen�to politicians. They mourn the middle�class which is shrinking as we watch�in the mirror. The poor… READ MORE
June 1, 2011
1. Consumption � TV captures imagi-�nation, holds us willing hostage�to manufactured need no longer basic�basted together by corporate Frankensteins � mr. mrs. ms.tified consumptives�we cough up blood�carnelian balances land�on cuspidoric… READ MORE
