Category Archives: Poetry

Pumpkin Stand Bowling 1962

October 30, 2024 – 7:06 am

Route 28 From Chatham On Cape Cod To Manchester New Hampshire. The four-laner contracted to two Through the Blue Hills South of Boston___ Wider again after the lights After Chicktawbut Road Passing my neighborhood A fruit stand sold pumpkins On Halloween___ That evening Hundreds lay unprotected No lights Our gang of boys and girls Sleathily […]

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Montauk Train # 19

October 27, 2024 – 7:22 pm

Amagansett Empty golf course Fourteen minutes From Montauk___ I have never played a round of golf Though once Back in the last century Queen’s Park London 1997 With friends Nina, Ingi and others The Persian, Maid Marion, Frank, maybe Fingers Maybe others___ On beautiful September afternoon Queen’s Park Nine holes___ Who won? No one cared […]

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le Bains Douches Toujours Seule

October 22, 2024 – 2:04 pm

A poem from a journal 1983. Ah, Paris.

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Classic Poetic Dysleixa

October 21, 2024 – 8:56 am

Edgar Allen Poe, Hart Crane, Willam Yeats 1916 Frank o’Hara, Bukowski, Ginsberg, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam Ezra Pound, Emily Dickenson, Sylvia Plath, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Every one of them considered mad to write poetry. My words of madness find me on the George Washington Bridge resisting the urge to fly Hart Crane’s supposed last […]

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Montauk Train # 7

October 19, 2024 – 2:22 pm

An hour after the dawn An eastbound diesel train Running through Long Island The 8:18 to Montauk Out of Jamaica___ Train’s top speed 60 mph Sometimes 65___ Approaching Babylon Sun creeping into the sky A public park A swimming pool Empty of water and kids Until A winter blizzard buries Long Island___ And the snow […]

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