Poems
notes of a
forty-year old country boy
Old Story family photo.
These poems were first published in 1978 as the centerpiece of Poets Magazine, and later nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read on radio as well as many times in public performance, they are reprinted here with permission.
Selected Other Poems
Other than the “Country Boy” series, the following represents the handful of published and unpublished poems that I still enjoy. All were written before the mid-1980s; since then, I have worked primarily in prose.
In the Backyard City Garden
(unpublished)*She Flies, Seeking Goldfish
(published in the Aspen Anthology,and again in the Berkeley Poetry Review, 1976)Problems of Translation
(published in Hyn Anthology, 1972)The Morning Climb
(published in the Berkeley Poetry Review, 1976)A Middle Aged Roué Takes A Seasonal Look in His Mirror
(unpublished)*It
(unpublished)*The Unicorn Speaks
(unpublished)*Personal Space Time
(unpublished)*
*Copyright © 2007.
