A travel tradition:
a haircut to honour the new place. We still talk about how bad the cut was in Reykjavik. Passing through Coos Bay, OR, my hair long and visibly grey, we see ‘Empire Barbers.’ My always-right wife insists. Muffled by mask, my barber is from northern Vietnam. 19 years in the US. Regularly returns home, well, that was pre-COVID. So very hot and humid in the summer. We swap stories about living in south China. Guangzhou - the factory of the world. He knows all about that. People take cheap stuff back to sell in Vietnam. Has a sister in Germany. Our old home, Dresden. Florence of the Elbe. Dresden? Been three times. You lived there? Stops razoring often to guffaw in amazement. He follows Man City football club from Vietnam to Oregon. We briefly watch a World Cup qualifier. England beating San Marina 4-0. I leave with better hair and an improved soul, my wife smiling like a Buddha. Published in #66 of The Journal, May 2022
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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
March 2024
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