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Seeing Past the Hudson – Poetry 1978 – Journal

February 9, 2025 – 12:02 pm

Soft, the West Wind Blowing visions Of a continent From beyond the Hudson River Jersey to the Delaware Water Gap The Midwest corn fields 360 flat horizens The Mississippi Corn giving way to cattle The Missouri High prarie rising from the Midwest Sighting of the Rockies Desert Nevada More desert The Sierras Oh California Oh, […]

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Sadness Of The Sober

February 6, 2025 – 12:45 pm

A woman reacted to this quote online. She – This man was really a sad lunatic. To go through life and seeing all that misery and ugliness, which I don’t deny, but not seeing the beauty of a first day of spring , blossoming of flowers , or the jubilant sound of the laughter of […]

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Classic Poetic Dysleixa

February 6, 2025 – 8:56 am

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

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On The Hurricane Deck

January 31, 2025 – 12:16 pm

On the hurricane deck Of the Spirit of America Staten Island ferry Departing St. George’s Bright sun on the Inner Harbor____ I’ve taken this ferry Hundreds of time Mostly to see a good friend Dr. Nepola We go back to 1970 I left him in Berkeley Telegraph Avenue 1973 Got a ride in a Ford […]

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Staten Island Fog – Journal May 9, 1978

January 31, 2025 – 1:25 am

From May 9, 1978 Journal On the Staten Island Ferry The first time I’ve left Manhattan Since going to Boston On Christmas___ 11 AM I can’t see anything of Manhattan The fog furls over the ferry’s wake Across the Inner Harbor The rank smell of the sea Beyond the Verrazano Bridge. The gray water darker […]

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