Poems

Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza

Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza Holocaust genocide refugees,Naqbah Amalekh atrocities.IDF Hamas HezbollahJihad US Ayatollah. Great Britian imperialismapartheid Zionismethnic cleansinganti-semiticextremism. Islam Judaism,Liberation Yerushalayim,Sins of the fathers visited on the children.Transgenerational vengeance engine. Uzzi settlers burning olive treesbreeds revenge in helpless teens;torture, memory, Nazis:perpetual collective trauma machine. — One state two statesIslamic state Jewish stateState of constant […]

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Exploring The Mountain Within

Illustration by Daniel Hoernemann

Download a PDF The way up is the way down.* Out at the edge of the worldtectonic plates,continental shelves,are cataclysmically shifting;colliding,grinding together,crushing and buckling and crumpling,breakingthe surface of the earthopenforcing whole oceans of stoneupwards into the sky,and downinto the sea of magma below,bursting forth in flaming lava conflagrations,mountainous volcanoes. The way up is the way

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Truth is a Refugee

In reaction to my deep dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I remembered a song I wrote a while back called ‘Truth is a Refugee’, about wars, and truth. Just piano and vox. And I did my very best to bring it back, and made a recording on Saturday (special thanks to rj fleck for

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An Ode to Incarnation

An Ode to Incarnation I’m the ephemeral union            the temporal assembly            the passing coherence            the momentary encounter            the transient intersection            the makeshift collaboration of a trillion organismscomprising a billion universes. I’m      a ball briefly burning brilliantly            a comet            a candle to kindling            an also ran flash in the panwhose dwindling gravitational fieldand centripetal forceis devolving

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O

We sow seeds of wild chaos across
your rows of ordered symmetry.
We rewrite blind rites
tying them to meaning.
We reroute ruts so they reach streams,
and dig down deep
so your source
bursts forth.

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Dare Drive

Bless the drive that compels you over the great divide. The faith by which you take the great leap. You don’t need to know how to fly. You never dive into wide open sky. You can’t see, yet, the unexpected astonishing weaving that will emerge beneath and before you, a net work of new openings

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My Saviour

whirlpool

A semi-epic poem featuring pop guns, ice capades, surfing, the collapse of all known universes, Carlos CastaQuixote, the Mona Lisa, the Cheshire Cat, Jack Nicholson and possibly Satan……

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