Published: Oct. 13, 2011
Words: 2733 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

A chapbook of thirteen poems written in the 1990's. Two of these poems won second prize honors at the Alameda County Fair three years ago. It is free to download, although a payment of 13 cents to either the author or your favorite charity would be appreciated. Before the Civil War, Walt Whitman peddled his poems door to door in Brookly, N.Y. for one penny per poem.

Extended description

Honoring the Bard!
A Murderer
No need then to take a life,
Silence its voice
Strew its brains across the gutter... (Read more) Honoring the Bard!
A Murderer
No need then to take a life,
Silence its voice
Strew its brains across the gutter
Shred its fibers into pulp
When bold Macbeth
Has done it for me: I’ve heard his heart knocking at his ribs, Staggered with him from the king’s bedchamber
Bedabbed in gore,
Hunched in the dark with not two but three henchmen
In Banquo’s path,
And waded so far into Fife’s red pool
It was easier to go o’er than turn back.
We two, famous murderers,
Have had our fill.
November 1991
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Tags

writers, love, murder, dogs, fear, death, friends, guns, school, children, sorrow, thinking, san francisco, infant, parents, pacific ocean, questions, dancing, crying, homelessness, excitement, weddings, birth, autos, ontario, visitors, valentines, hills, kisses, geese, photographs, folly, buzzards, offspring, smells, mlk jr, brown pelicans, seattle rain, malcom x, jail time, flowers and plants and trees, nightmarish hell, comrades

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Review by: Christina M. Grey on Oct. 19, 2011 :
I was in early on when I read "And so and so on, / This day’s toe hitting next day’s heel, / Soundless screaming tedium straggles a twisting path." These poems have a special quality that I can't quite name. They are stories, mostly, intense characterizations. The imagery of the metaphors is searing, but it's the often use of action over description that keeps you reading.
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