The Corner Club Press, Spring 2017 issue includes my poem Let the Sparrow Fall. http://thecornerclubpress.weebly.com/issues.html
Tag: american poetry
To Awaken Next to You
You said your love was everlasting Even as your spirit broke from you Ten years my mind has been grasping What my heart couldn’t give to you. Now the white dove doesn’t return to What your flame couldn’t burn through Witness the salt that I’ve turned to Your blood is stain on my innocence. Ashes…
Mommy Was In Love
Hope is lost is lying near is beating drums is slipping along and chasing and grasping is breathing and gasping Liz is waiting, inpatient and hating seeing hope chase love and catching looking once and throwing it away Once ain’t enough to turn the spade once ain’t enough to grow and fade once we turn…
The End Means the End
Head turned to what I hear got a heart full of iron hard as diamonds hiding in the leaves of some great intrusion some great suffering. Life fire I have drowned out life fire I have lain down strike fire with days gone blow fire, your pyre I have pissed on your desire I have…
Broken Child
Broken child what kind of man have you become no one’s child you’re half the man you wanted to be Inspiration brings to you to the smoking gun tell me, what brings a person to kill a loved one is it because you can’t hide from who you are deep inside polarized, devil warring angel…
An Interview with Barnabas Collins, Writer/Guitarist from West Michigan
https://www.smashwords.com/interview/Barnabas1 Interview with Barnabas Collins Who are your favorite authors? Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Lester Bangs, T.S. Elliot, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Irving Stettner, Geezer Butler. Henry Miller for his free and easy flow and rich symbolism. He was able to see every task with a sort of zen perspective. He was always…