I started writing poems in grade school and I've never stopped. My writing continued but slowed down in grad school, and during my years in Boston working on human/computer interface design. I’ve returned to the Bay Area, writing at full speed, and reading everywhere I can.
While I was living in Eugene, Oregon, I co-founded the editorial collective that published 10 Point 5: A Magazine of the Arts. We published 7 issues from 1976-78, including poetry, images, and interviews with local filmmakers, dancers, Robert Bly, and the novelist Ursula Le Guin. My poems have appeared in Troubador Anthology, The Goodly Company, Mr. Cogito, Echo, 10 Point 5, Uut Poetry and Fur-lined Ghettos. You can get my digital chapbook, Realtime Babies, from iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and amazon -- you can hear me read all the poems in that volume at www.realtimebabies.net. On May 30, 2016, I was the featured poet in the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show on youtube, in the segment hotsted by Clara Hsu.
melt the poured titanium
overgrown life has graves
growing normal pilots in paris
i can’t find trees inside us
to reach molybdenum anywhere
or salvage the ancient robot wheatfield violin dances
there’s not enough mustard gas
in the student aircraft wires
to guide us through the stalingrad meteors
i talked to her this week so please rescue us
and start over
tiny little machines listen to my favorite dying hole
the laser found my hot
stellar tape will say my name
and push the wrong button under the green bushes
i like to think i have no friend to meet
someday all my radios will sing stillness
stop the microscope satellite
under small trees
and marry the silent deathbed
gathered in dark mountain gunshots
— san jose
may 2015
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