A sudden, sneaking glimpse
of that iconic animal, scuttling along the roadside, dodging under a fence on the edge of the Warm Springs reservations, heading towards the White Man's world of oversized trucks and smartphones. This is enough to know Coyote. His name drips with stories, footprints dusted with myths, panting tongue soaks up omens. For a few fleeting seconds I run with Coyote and become…
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The bus back from Nuremburg
stops at Chemnitz, industrial city of East Germany – once Karl Max Stadt in the years of walls, ears, Stasi fears. The bus spews out the smokers: a cross-section of East Germany, from teen to oma, all standing stuck on spots, cigarettes hurriedly sucked, no words spoken, no eye contact, no secrets exchanged in the smoke, the heavily-kneaded clay of every face chewing over thick, quiet thoughts. Driver says five minute break over. Every cigarette correctly deposited, the bin steams in rank approval. The bus rocks as the smokers board and we leave, silence lingering. Published in 50#, The Journal, 2017. |
Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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