Category Archives: Poetry

Key West Light – April 1981

May 9, 2023 – 10:46 am

Palms wavering in the Key West light. High noon I hide in the shade My eyes blinded by brightness Maybe it’s the light Making the horizon so close As if it were the edge of the world Sailors fear the edge of the world I have no fear I stand on land. Key West. I […]

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LOVE BOAT KEY WEST – APRIL 18, 1981 – JOURNAL

April 24, 2023 – 10:33 am

The dirty love boat beached at Duvall Street’s eastern end. All its voyages everywhere The Final stop. Key West. Castro refugees fled Havana Keeping boats afloat with prayers, curses And a lot of bailing. Not one didn’t abandon ship Once the dirty love boat stuck sand Not one them are here now And where are […]

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April 12, 1981 – Booking after the Jefferson Raid – Journal Entry

April 13, 2023 – 7:42 pm

Manhattan’s Central Booking Early Sunday morning Our crew of ten from the Jefferson Our crime Serving alcohol after 4am. Photos by an old black turnkey. Empty our pockets. Keys, wallets et al. COs pushing us through a metal detector. Our after-hour crew shoved in a holding cell The clank of steel doors Everyone else a […]

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ReAmerica

April 4, 2023 – 9:44 am

High above the Hudson Over four hundred feet Someone help this stranded pilgrim To see into a forgotten America I’ve been trapped in a city of concrete and steel. Drinking and drugging Ignoring the Call of the Wild. From the storm King Highway I hear the scream. Come see me Come see America. Before it’s […]

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Lazurus In My Blood

March 30, 2023 – 12:49 pm

Two summers ago in the black night of Brooklyn I spewed several liters of blood into the bathroom tub. After wiping the retch from my face More blood surged from my body. Something was not right. Something was very wrong. I crossed the East River. Inside the NYU’s emergency room. The staff took one look […]

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