Hundred and Seventy Four 10.10.16 1) Happy Indigenous Peoples Day 2) Phuck Donald Trump 3) The Poem: Bill Berkson October I It’s odd to have a separate month. It escapes the year, it is not only cold, it is warm and loving like a death grip on a willing knee. The Indians have a name … Continue reading Bill Berkson – October

Allen Ginsberg Homework Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I’d wash my dirty Iran I’d throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in the jungle, I’d wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib & Gulf of … Continue reading Allen Ginsberg – Homework

Dear La Familia, I Managed to work on an "art" project for a year! One Poem At A Time is one year old. And I made sure to celebrate this accomplishment. I rode on my bike for hours listening to Pink Floyd and Jazz by Coleman Hawkins, spend time in a wonderful used book store, touched and … Continue reading Happy Birthday One Poem At A Time! (Year one) – Thank you!

Hundred And Seventy Two 9.30.16 1) Friday sweet love! Welcome home to my arms.. let us "sing the body electric".. oh for "I like my body when it's with yours"! 2) The Poem: Bukowski a song with no end when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric” I know what he meant I know what … Continue reading Bukowski – a song with no end

For Louis Craig Dalrymple on his birthday. You know how it goes. You want a better job, a nicer bed, more vacation time, more sun, less heat, less work, more money, less money, Health, You want a lover, You want to be single, You want to gain weight, lose weight, sleep more, party more, You … Continue reading You know how it goes.

Hundred and Seventy One 9.29.16 1) Happy Birthday Lou! Remember when we met at Dolores park and had our first friend date at Zeitgeist later. Time is weird and beautiful, so are you! 2) I would recommend listening to this track while reading this nonsense, and try not to add any sense to it, I like it this … Continue reading Frank O’Hara – Steps

Hundred and Seventy 9.27.16 Let's forget our names, lose all we have, and when we have nothing else to give we can sing, because when you have nothing else left all you can do is sing  -- (much easier said than done, shit!) --. Ok, maybe don't do that if that's not your jam or … Continue reading Pablo Neruda – Autumn Testament

Hundred and Sixty Nine 9.26.16 Oh man, what a Fall! Woke up early this morning and felt that coolness of the air on my skin after a long and hot summer. Woke up to a gray sky, and to smell of woods and the rain. I live right next to massive National Park (?) damp, … Continue reading Mark Strand – Keeping Things Whole

Hundred and Sixty Eight 9.23.16 This world.. will it get better? Will we stop our hate and anger? Ah so easy to ask these questions from the privileged platform I am sitting on from behind this screen..I am sad and broken about where the world and humanity is headed and having hard time finding comfort … Continue reading Langston Hughes – I, Too

Hundred and Sixty Seven 9.21.16 The Poem: Diane Di Prima Song for Baby-O, Unborn Sweetheart when you break thru you’ll find a poet here not quite what one would choose. I won’t promise you’ll never go hungry or that you won’t be sad on this gutted breaking globe but I can show you baby enough … Continue reading Diane Di Prima – Song for Baby-O, Unborn