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A in that it is was;
I for on you --
he be with as by
at have are this.
But had his they from she
which or we an there her were one --
do been all their has would will;
what if can when so no …

New poem. Definitely not finished. Might take the last two paragraphs and turn them into a new poem.

Everything I see makes a sound; what does silence look like?
We have no yardstick, no block of iridium one meter long;
we know absolute zero but without vacuum there is no …

From 2000 to 2003 I was a computer consultant in Southern California, covering a territory of Irvine to Oxnard. (If you don't know Southern California, that's a LONG stretch of road.) I coped by composing haiku and sending them to friends as text messages.

Traffic stalled.
The mind wanders to …

I haven't done a blog update in ages. I think there's an inverse relationship between how much I'm working and how often I post on my blog. When I first started this thing, business was slow. I mean really slow. I mean sending applications to Starbucks slow. For the last …

Went to the Valley Contemporary Poets reading at the Cobalt Café Tuesday night. The Cobalt, hosted by Rick Lupert, was my "home reading" when I first started out in poetry. I haven't been back in years, so it was tremendously exciting to be there. I had a great time -- I …

A good weekend for poetry so far. On Friday I went to Rapp Saloon, which rocked. I really thought the night was going to suck, because at the beginning of the reading there were about 10 people in the room. People kept trickling in though the night, and by the …

Just got back from open mike at Psychobabble Cafe on Vermont. They've got a new host (at least, new since the last time I was there) and it's a damn good night of poetry. The highlight was the feature, Gina Loring, who I've seen several times at the Green reading …

Just got back from open mike at Psychobabble Cafe on Vermont. They've got a new host (at least, new since the last time I was there) and it's a damn good night of poetry. The highlight was the feature, Gina Loring, who I've seen several times at the Green reading …

I hope to God "Mia" has come into its own and last night wasn't some kind of a fluke because last night was one of the rockin'est nights of poetry I've heard. Anyone who wasn't there missed a damn good reading.

I came in about 40 minutes late to a …

Just got back from Larry Jaffe's "Another West: Poets from Our Community" at the Well's Fargo Theater in the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. The night was a blast! Some people might have been there for the "11-11 for 9-11" reading that Larry hosted there on November 11 as a …