This is my poetry.  This is my soul.  If you want to know me without "knowing" me my poetry is place to find out that deepest most personal things a person's body holds.  The playlist above features oldies, classics, hits, and some more recent work.  Below I will try to update with a poem whenever I write one.  Someday I hope learn how to put comment box on this page but for now enjoy my audio words above and my some new text below.


Book Jacket

In upper left of the frame a yellow window light like a light bulb clinging
over the head of an evil genius glows out a spire arced over the black city
like a robotic brontosaurus necking to devour the skyline.

You never give this simple beacon of humanity credence or a voice
it is just one is a swarm of cyber fireflies swarming towers and landing pads,
and fogged in ports, and dark allies, for it is common like air

On the other side of the pane a couple fighting over dirty dishes
isn’t really arguing over the burnt pan and unwashed spoons
it is something outside themselves, outside the window maybe

larger than even the spourt of future-world iron and future-world steel maybe
it is infidelity, maybe it is addiction, maybe it is bad sex or a bad office day, maybe
it is the end of the world and all their grievances and regrets have reared up

in an army of cyborg emotions bent the on destruction of the other
in a grasping attempt to win before the whole of humanity looses.
But you only ever noticed the flat spheroid starship sailing smoothly
like a sting a ray across the cityscapes fading cerulean dusk.

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Bear 2010