Writing
2026
Arrangements
You bravos had better be ready to fight.—Warren Zevon, My Ride’s HereI’m thinking bagpipes. No,…
AGAINST ERASURE
Louie gunned down in his shop, Boris struck and flung to…
Erleichda
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.—Albert EinsteinIt’s time, child, to talk about…
Per Stirpes
I stand as one, but I come with ten thousand.~Maya AngelouAnd now comes you, child,
Change of Seasons
Summer south of the borderiguanas pose nudeadobe-lined cities
A Language Searching for a Home
My mother tongue, my birth language,is far from dead, yet everyonereassures me it’s dying.
Buenos Aires In and Out
InOutJust outside the gates
The First Last Kiss
A slight haze blurred the skyline, and the expanse of lights faintly reflected in the wall-sized…
Debaser
“You’re here because you’re dead.” The clerk at the hotel desk, dressed in a red uniform…
Duty
The downstairs den glows with late-night TV.My mother settles into Doctor Zhivagoafter a day of caring…
A Forgotten Christ
On “Christ Cleansing the Temple”, Wood by El Greco, c. 1570We surely must follow Christ, learn…
Stumbling, Pitfalls, and Spells
‘Yo no creo en brujas, pero que las hay, las hay’(Galicia’s cruel saying)There was a thief…
Boots
The same sun scorched downtown Los Angeles that had seared the Iraq desert. Army Private First…
As Shadows Slide Away
When you look for my voice, find itin my poem in slightly accented speech,a Nordic inflextion,…
Elision
Being an erudite endomorph, I simulaate earth,thus engender effulgence, a kind of ozoneI believe is not…