Welcome
This is home to my collection of poems.
Some go back many years. Others are more recent.
I’ve tinkered with many of them over the years.
And this is where they settled.
I hope you enjoy them.
Soul
(coming soon)
JUNE 2023
The Meatsuit
When I first donned my meatsuit I more Or less provided it with food and care. I scrubbed its hands and teeth and combed its hair. I scrutinized it after and before. I permitted everything that’s lawful. I supervised each glistening glob of gland And organ, though as you can understand, Secretly considered them as offal. The guarantee’s expired on my sack Of skin and what it holds and now I know I can’t get any sort of trade-in. So They told me when I tried to take things back. Now only junkyards have replacement parts For baffled brains and syncopated hearts.
JUST PUBLISHED IN CREOSOTE
Walking the Dog
The old dog totters. So does his master. It’s late afternoon. They’re out for a walk, A 2-hour trip around a city block. Long enough. They can’t go any faster. Every six steps the dog collapses. Then The man in knee braces flinches and trembles. The leash in his palsied hand assembles Authority. The dog rises again. It’s bone on bone in my arthritic knees. Clumsy swollen calves tend to their tangles. My ankles no longer form their angles. Still, compared to this pair, I’m Hercules, Watching this crippled couple’s fettered feet Stubbornly stumble down a city street.
STARRING LAURENCE SNYDAL
The Death of Alex Litsky
While working at the Blind Lemon bar in Berkeley, Herb De Grasse cast me as the existential poet Alex Litsky in this 1968 film.