The poems on this site cover a span from about 1995 to the present. Some of them have been published elsewhere, and some have not. On each page, you can click the play button for streaming readings via SoundCloud.
In the Aftermath
July and
four days of monsoon rain
Mudslides on the edge of town
Roads washed out
Splintered pines crisscross
piled earth and smashed houses
An upturned car
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Hokusai’s Peaks
Hokusai
the unrivaled master
of woodblock print lived his
later years in Shinshu
Old Nagano
Enshrined by the lofty ranges
that have always set
wanderers to dream
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On Social Change
People of the wind
Blow and howl
Shape and curve
And lodge dust in wide eyes
They swell and raze
Bluster vary their force
Steadily bending the landscape
To their longing
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