Category Archives: Poetry Project

New Ekphrastic Poetry Zoom Book Launch: Reflexions: Sculpture & Poetry

I am proud to announce the publication of my new hardcover Eckphrastic poetry book collaboration with Seattle Poet, Cheryl Latif and San Diego book editor Jan Carpenter Tucker called Reflexions: Sculpture & Poetry. The book consists of 40 poems written by Cheryl inspired by 40 of my sculptures she choose in a beautiful hardcover book put together by Jan with color photos of the sculptures and poems on opposing pages.  A book Zoom Book Launch (recorded below) was  hosted by Seattle poet Rick Lupert in early December where the sculptor, poet, and editor all discuss their  remarkable collaboration over 2 years to create this beautiful art book. It is available on line thru the BookBaby publishing site for only $35 plus shipping.

Book Launch Video: Enjoy

Uncle Sam/Tio Samuel

    Uncle Sam Who are you, Uncle Sam Where do you come from Who sent you, Uncle Sam With spangled stars Dressed in red white and blue Who are you Who do you stand for, Uncle Sam Son of […]

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The Annunciation of Francis

The Annunciation of Francis I did not come to him on bended knee clutching a stalk of lilies and a message from God, dressed in a gown effulgent as fire. I came out of the darkness of earth from the […]

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Thread of Life

Thread of Life The world hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man. ~ C.G. Jung We are hung, lowered into life by a thin thread, ribbon of the umbilical cord wrapped about our neck, […]

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Shakti

Shakti Out of salt and marrow out of toothed vagina out of horn and chitinous underbelly out of womb and spine spring enters my body, graceful and blind and furious. On the morning of the equinox I chase the rising […]

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Metatron

Metatron Is this how Heaven’s messenger behaves, fleeing the hard-trowled earth and our cooling holocausts? Everything here is barren. We expected you to teach us, at least to erect some monument glorying God. We knelt at first, marvelling at the […]

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Siren’s Lament

Siren’s Lament In time the bird-women, the Sirens with their irresistible songs, were heard less frequently. The sea gradually washed the shore clean of sailors’ corpses; fewer and fewer brave mariners were drawn by desire to these deadly reefs. Whether […]

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Rot-Grin Jack

Rot-Grin Jack Once a god now a dog in this backward time pokes a head through the hedge dividing what we see from what we get. Antlers from the human dawn have been drawn into eclipsed Christian heaven, dangling the […]

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Listening to Life

Listening to Life #1 The stones are held in reserve there Roots woven through them Kept secure and protected The brawny trunk rests beneath heaven Branches twisting in the direction of the sun My hand reaches out To ask for […]

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Cypress, Daughter of Fertility

Cypress, Daughter of Fertility Offshoot of blood and flesh, spun off from my hip, my tattered bone. This wild iris will see what I have seen. The female flowers in silence. Birthed out of depths – rooted, entwined, sprung. It […]

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