#AmericanWriters
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
O lord, he said, Japanese women, real women, they have not forgotte… bowing and smiling closing the wounds men have made; but American women will kill you l…
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
Mindy stayed about a week. I introduced her to my friends. We went places. But nothing was resolved. I couldn’t climax. She didn’t seem to mind. It was strange. Around 10:45 PM one even...
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle