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First published in Exit #13 For Thanasis Maskaleris (2) Poet, teach my poems how to dance! (3) Now they can only limp along, alla zoppa (4), As if in a trance to unheard music Played on un-amplified instruments, By young voices as wide eyed as Owls, As if Minerva could reappear as cloned birds Perched [...]

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The streets are empty cold and I am alone this morning My idle rant appears as steam Meaningless cloudwisp hung in a crazy sky jabber Ah! Two people pass Holding hands walking wearing warm knits They do not see, Father I am wet with the dew of Christmas dawn and There is no manger Two [...]

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photo by eric chazankin In the past, I often dreaded Mamet?Äôs repetitive text. I will not go into my distaste for his characterization of a certain type of gender in some of his other plays. But, Mamet’s “Boston Marriage” diminished my past sourness for his work. I find this piece to be the most engaging [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast week of major transit on Thursday, when Venus, the planet of personal relationships and artistic expression, at 1º Pisces will sextile Pluto, the planet of regeneration and soul evolution, at 1º Capricorn. The energy expressed from the [...]

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According to www.allmusic.com, there are currently seventy-two recordings of the Gene McDaniels composition ?ÄúCompared to What?Äù listed at its website. The song, primarily associated with Les McCann and his many versions of it (his live one with Eddie Harris that opens the 1969 Atlantic Records album ?ÄúSwiss Movement?Äù is a personal favorite), has been featured [...]

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An amputated sunrise, classic curve Veined behind disgorging sky, We arrive, platform three. Foreshadowed blue, clear-cut, The Scot steams, smokes Chasing soot rummaging clouds Overhanging to Portsmouth. Throttled incipient blades, Speeds dissolve to sippets; Blood pumping along cracks, White transparent skin. At the Palace, orbs, sceptres Luminous pitch, underthings hitched up, Rich stale fetor of [...]

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from the forthcoming volume of poetry “Healing Tree,” Inner Circle Publishing A dove, a symbol of peace wisdom of the awaiting; a messenger of purity and new beginnings. The deer swift and graceful; aspirations of the life of the soul. The crow, symbol of foretold destinies darkness before creation, known realities, awaiting changes. The phoenix [...]

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It is a quiet place Down a ways cow ?ÄúMyaah?Äù …the odd bird Tug-boat engine churning water wake A bee buzz on the wind against my ear Leaves Far off trains strike big-handed chords The grand pipe organ, the rusty rails And the gunpowder clouds sing ?ÄúTrouble don?Äôtcha come here, no.?Äù Locomotive close in the [...]

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Spaghetti western horse opry neigh-sayers      Shoot-’em-up shut-’em-up Make My Day          Dark horse upsets pale horse              Broncobuster bucking stacked deck odds              Double-dealing sharks pair of Aces          Livin’ on Jacks and Queens      Maverick heartthrob winning Royal Flush Straight wrangler rustling V-for-Vaquero rodeo-o-o Chuck wagon chocolate chip cookies      Doves scavenging leftover [...]

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Ambition fashions itself narrowly deflating girls. It?Äôs open and shut ?Äì even grisly ducklings spree drugstore complexions, tags, hospitalizing arts. See they?Äôre just dandy, touchingly blessed, grabby with all the latest-scream fads. * She?Äôd knocked up and out charged on teenage begetting rates. A surplus shell suit this month, window shops pushchairs in lieu in [...]

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And the number one with a bullet (OK, it rhymes with ?Äúbullet?Äù) topic in Vallejo this week: yes, folks, once again it?Äôs bankruptcy. With a capital ?ÄúB?Äù and that rhymes with ?ÄúP?Äù and that stands for ?ÄúPLEASE FILE.?Äù Bankruptcy in California has a long history that goes back to the early days of its admittance [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast week of major transit on Thursday when the Sun, your source of vitality and light, at 16º Pisces, will sextile Jupiter, the planet of expansion and growth, at 16º Capricorn. The energy expressed from this sextile of [...]

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From our local city council controversy over when to go bankrupt, to our national struggle for democracy in the twenty first century, there’s plenty if current events to keep our conversations centered on the present. Part of finding a path to the future is looking back and learning from the past. Last Friday we focused [...]

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What some people do In order to: Eat. On Manet’s painting, “Luncheon on the Grass” [La Dejeuner sur l'Herbe] Her eyes force me to look away From her nakedness. She is not nude. The heat of shame reddens my face. Her eyes stare at me, so I look instead At the still-life which graces me [...]

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We begin the way East, west. Into the ocean with many names. Animals stir the dark inside us, like questions, crawling & hungry. So many answers. We cut them down, make room & call it shelter, a space & time of our own. A new frontier to probe. This is freedom. & it?Äôs scary. We [...]

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