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Anthem for the Earth

Italian-American

From The Last Gun

From Notes From the Dry County

From Still Life with Sardines
Poems: New and Used

Legacy
From Sing Silence

Middle School Gunman

Undone
Title Poem From Undone

My Spirit Animal

A College Boy Travels South with Baggage
From The Anima of Paul Bowles

Two Texas Folk Films
From The Unbeckonable Bird

Migrations
From Our Situation

Worsening the Situation
From Chance Bodies

The City of Birth
From Another City

Myrtle Beach, 1959
From Naming the Natural World

Prayer in the Winter Desert
From Let You Fly

My Thoughts and Prayers Are With You
Betsy Holleman

Open City: Pittsburgh
Martin Shapiro

Help
Roni Fuller

Three Poems
Majda Gama & Henry Crawford

Poet colleague Majda Gama shared three of her wonderful poems with me. She also suggested three of mine from American Software for comparision. So here they are side-by-side on the page.

• The Stars Fall on Alabama + St. Ike of the Illuminated Highways

• P Street Beach Elegy + East of Manhattan

• Germs Burns + Kurt Cobain [1994]

How we Fall Asleep
from A Language the Land is Inventing

The Vig of Love
From The Vig of Love

Santa Barbara Morning
Judith Bowles

Rondeau Beginning with a Quote
from Lyndon Baines Johnson
from The Scientific Method

Hawk and Dove
Ellen Sazzman

The Letter O
from The Letter O

JFK to LAX
from Good Housekeeping

Gettysburg, July 1, 1863
Renee Gherity