I MUST BE THE FIRST
The best poem set to music since Having a Coke with You. Out now on Whities.
The Cold Tap Sings
the p-word
April 23, 2020
EN PLEIN AIR
En Plein Air
I scroll thru
Hockney’s
Yosemite Suite
painted on
his iPad
en plein air
exactly where
I wanna be
among purplish
redwood forests
within earshot
of Ribbon Fall
I travel online
Image: ‘Untitled No. 4’ from The Yosemite Suite by David Hockney
February 4, 2020
THIS HIGH ROPE OF WATER
In this high rope of water
twisting from times long gone
down the famous falls
I have bound my vows
for ages still to come
Zōki, ‘Ionushi’s Pilgrimage to Kumano’ tr. Meredith McKinney, in Travels with a Writing Brush.
November 8, 2019
MY LIFE
One of the most bewitching books I’ve read this year.
No puppy or dog will ever be capable of this, and surely no parrot. No one can ask another a rhetorical question. We can only read stray rocks and first we must learn their names.
July 16, 2019
ANOYO
I’ve been enjoying this album whose song titles form a poem.
The Cold Tap Sings 