Please come see me at International Reading Association:
Monday May 4
11:00 AM Signing Bloomsbury Booth (#839)
1:00 PM "Beyond Haiku: Building a Poetry Repertoire" (Featured Author Strand)
Minneapolis CC, Room 200 ABC Peace It’s wiggling the hook out of the fish’s mouth watching the flash and form dissolve in dark waters. It’s bitter words swallowed before they push past the gates of angry lips. It’s a back turning a head shaking a refusal to hear an ugly rumor, a compromising joke, lies. It’s sandbags passed hand to hand by a river that’s tipping over, or a guest bedroom bulging with refugees. It’s oatmeal on cracked, swollen fly-bitten lips. A book whose words seem meant for the reader or post-card scenery sliding past a window. It’s the perfect silence of an empty room all one’s own. It’s this hand, reaching out to yours.
And here's a new poem I wrote for an anthology to raise money for the Patch Adams hospital:
Maya Ganeson is doing the Poetry Friday round-up over at allegro
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