Tag Archives: poetry

Young Girls Dance Forever

I’m out to Montauk this weekend, basically until the end of the summer with potential ventures afar to Europe, Africa, and the Orient. Billie says the young people, ie Gwen his daughter and her beau are due tomorrow. Coming in for LA to be New York artists. They are renting a apartment on on Dean […]

Liege Lost 2011

Luxembourg bound From Oxford The Ambassador behind the wheel A Porsche Boxer 140 kph Arrive Folkestone Late Well past Midnight___ Wait In the car park Board the car-train Chunnel To Pas De Calais Night Northern France On the Autoroute___ The Ambassador behind the wheel The Porsche fast 180kph Alice loves speed___ Moi Un passenger Le […]

Tough Guy – Myrtle Avenue

One walking back From buying a Newport loosie On Myrtle across from the park Smoking slow Walking slower A bald black man muscular His fit dog dropped to his belly__ “I know how you feel.” I say to dog His man “Shut the fuck up, honky.” “I ain’t the type to shut up, Plus I […]

Old Books Squeaky Floor

Yesterday At the Antiquarian book fair Park Avenue Armory Inside Old older and oldest books Maps, and posters A map of Florida Spanish 1768 Florida With no roads crossing the Everglades__ A tourist placard from 1883 Promoting an Arctic Whaling voyage And comic books In the early 1960s I had the first Spiderman, Fantastic Four, […]

A Seaward Gaze

The next day The end of March No sun A misty cold wind ripped over the bluffs The Atlantic roughing the shore___ To the Eastern horizon Of ocean The rise of Block Island From the depths Of the Sea Bottom__ All land All 360 degrees The remnants Of The Great Glacier Melting 15000 years ago___ […]