PoEMS
Videopoems
After Mowing [text / audio / video] - gnat wings and green grass / speckle…
The Other Side of Solstice [prose poem - text / audio / video] - Today is the longest day of the year in Alaska and probably other places too where you can walk downtown and get free checking and a chance to win…
Poems with Audio
It Happens All the Time [prose poem - text / audio / music] - Once there was a group of people living in a place called America. These people were new to America and had the same blood as people who lived…
It’s Under the Leaves [text / audio / music] - The lights are on but she's not around / there's mud on the stairs and the shovel is gone / footprints at the window lead back to the woods / a cigarette smolders near a pile of dead leaves…
State of Being [prose poem - text / audio] - He sits on the waterlogged bench because he can. It's raining out but he has decided to sit on the bench because he can. It's close to midnight and he is sitting…
The Other Side of Solstice [prose poem - text / audio / video] - Today is the longest day of the year in Alaska and probably other places too where you can walk downtown and get free checking and a chance to win…
Selected Poems
A Found Study on the Sociology of South Central Alaska [Anchorage Biking to Work Remix] [text] - Gun control means using both hands. Uncle Sam wants you to speak English. Keep honking, I'm reloading. PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals. If god didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have...
After Mowing [text / audio / video] - gnat wings and green grass / speckle…
After the Fall [text] - It’s always the same story—boy loves girl. / Or some variation with a dog in winter, a street carnival, / and someother something that syntactically parallels…
August Light [text] - I live lifetimes forgotten / please forgive me / as I feel my way…
A Watch Winding Down 1967 [text] - Oh yes, then I'll wear my red dress / so we'll look purposeful together / to people we might meet at the supermarket.
Die Augenblick [text, prose poem] - She was doing her mascara. I remember it was a Wednesday afternoon in early April. The wind was beginning to blow off the Pacific through San Francisco. I don't remember what I ate for lunch…
Exchange [text] - Then, when with much applause he lectured, / there sitting quietly at the back of the lecture-room…
How Many Stops? [text] - “Do you ever wonder / about past lives,” she asked / to no one in particular…
It begins like this with the light [text] -We lie in the darkness dormant. / After what seems a lifetime…
It Happens All the Time [prose poem - text / audio / music] - Once there was a group of people living in a place called America. These people were new to America and had the same blood as people who lived…
It happens so quickly— [text] over and over again, / I close my eyes. // When I open them,...
It’s Under the Leaves [text / audio / music] - The lights are on but she's not around / there's mud on the stairs and the shovel is gone / footprints at the window lead back to the woods / a cigarette smolders near a pile of dead leaves…
Late Summer [text] - then it wasn't rain and clouds leaves of grass glistened grasshoppers cricket song sang centipede centurians from under rocks earthworms the color of sensitive body parts cur- li-cued ragweed…
Looking for what I likely already have [text] - Found some blueberries…
State of Being [prose poem - text / audio] - He sits on the waterlogged bench because he can. It's raining out but he has decided to sit on the bench because he can. It's close to midnight and he is sitting…
Strawberry moon yielding constellations on a Saturday night [prose poem - text] - I don't know if it was the impressive beauty of the pink-orange moon that appeared to settle over Boise or that it was Friday night after all the olds are at home or already sleeping…
The Library [text] - i went to the library / to sit in the carrel / by the window on the second floor / and as i turned the corner / by the outdated history books / i smelled a most pleasant smell…
The One and The Other - an augmented reality poetry installation [text, audio, video, augmented reality browser]
The Other Side of Solstice [prose poem - text / audio / video] - Today is the longest day of the year in Alaska and probably other places too where you can walk downtown and get free checking and a chance to win…
Word is Elegy [text] - He's thinking of a word he's thinking of / the word the word he's thinking / and isn't any closer to it…