Wednesday, April 24, 2024

What's New!!

 New poetry chapbook book "Dreams and Other Magic" published by Alien Buddha Press is available now on Amazon!




So honored to have two poems in the inaguaral issue of Sinkhole, a journal "dedicated to prose and poetry in which the writers freely explore themselves or worlds unlike our own." Look for "I Remember The Blood, Mostly" and "And Yet, We Sing"!
 
My short story "A Romany Funeral" available at Half and One Magazine, joining "Remember Forgiveness" and "The Dry Years", which they published a few monts ago.

Coming in June, Rituals, a journal from Anomaly Poetry, will include two of my poems, "Fall Into Her Eyes" and "Crossing Generations"!

The beautiful journal Coneflower Cafe, availabe now from Choeofplirn Press (the publishers say, "Our name is pronounced chuf-plern and roughly means 'the chief place of rest,' but it is a word we coined by alternating the letters of our surnames") includes two of my poems, "Raymond Carver's Toaster" and "Dr. O'Little"!

2/11/24 - What a blast reading at Slightly Off-Beat Poets, in Thompson CT.

                                                                                    



1/11/2024 - Video of me reading at Pour Me a Poem Open Mic in Mansfield, MA:            




My poem "No Small Hole" has been accepted by Written Tales Magazine and is included in their latest "chapbook", available now: Written Tales Chapbook XI: Nostalgia

Also, I'm almost always at the Pour Me a Poem open mic event in Mansfield, second Thursday of every month (email me for location and details, or find Pour Me a Poem on Facebook); Poetry the Art of Words open mic in Plymouth, second Sunday of every month (except July and August); and Poetorium at Starlite, last Thursday of every month in Southbridge.

Click here to see my appearance on For The Love Of Words, from Easton Community Access Television, from 2/16/23.


Some photos from prior events:


The view from the podium at Poetry the Art of Words, located at Plymouth Center for the Arts.



Open Mic readings at Book Lovers Gourmet in Webster, MA.



The Poetorium at Starlite, Southbridge, MA

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Her Skin Rearranges the Light

 

Her Skin Rearranges the Light
 
What more could I wish
than to adore and be adored by
such as the one who calls me “baby”
as she breathes in my ear;
 
She who bathes in moon-rays
while her skin rearranges the light,
and she anoints me
with the holy oil of her reflection.
 
No more could I hope for
than her emeraldine gaze,
and to remain forever in her grace
is far more than I deserve.