Category: Poetry
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The Catalina Mountains: Babad Do’ag I and II (with audio)
The Santa Catalina mountains, on the northern edge of Tucson, are one of the great loves of my life, and have helped to make me what I am now.
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Carcinogenic Optimism
A poetic reflection on the stubborn optimism of many (but not all) Boomers, despite the now unavoidable reality we all face.
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Saguaro Poems: For the Saguaros (with audio)
What good we could do for the saguaros, for the planet, may we only do it *now*.
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Saguaro Poems: ‘That cactus is so sturdy!’ (with audio)
The first of a series of Saguaro Poems (or 2, at least, for now), this one on the vulnerability revealed by the condition of being armed.
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Great Mother, What Can Be Done? (with audio)
A poet’s prayer to Gaia, the Great Mother, from my collection Poems for the Anthropocene, to mark the start of COP27, with audio.
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There’s a space inside
The last of the love poems: The Big Heartbreak. It’s his birthday, and he’s been haunting me, so I’m feeling maybe a little spiteful.
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The impact of hearing myself reciting my poems
Reflections (mostly surprise, even shock) on feeling the impact of hearing my poetry, simultaneously the poet and a stranger to words I know reflexively.
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What’s left to say (with audio)
Climate grief and raw rage within a realist’s view of the status quo
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Oedipus, or They Who Dared
A poem from a while back, a spontaneous production inspired by a song one of my friends was writing and had just sung for us.
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Enigmatic Energies
A much earlier call to the Muses, but before I’d learned I could call that force ‘the Muses.’
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