Lew Welch said: “We all know what we go to poetry for. We want the exact transmission of Mind into Word.” I’d also add: poetry should say something true. Big truths or small truths, it doesn’t matter, but something true. And that’s why I read and write poetry.
I had a different poetry site for a long time, and there you’ll find poems, haiku and tanka from 1996-2013. Poems that have been published from this period have also been reproduced below. Wherever someone’s been kind enough to publish me, a link to that site or to the publisher/publication is also included.
In 2014 I started publishing my work here exclusively. Poems are below, with haiku and tanka having their own pages on this site.
2017
without a care engage the world
2016
Since I consider myself a jazz poet
The Moral Rights of the Author Have Been Asserted
2015
Exercise caution when driving or operating potentially dangerous machinery
Two Negresses (inspired by the Matisse sculpture ‘Deux Negresses’) (written 2011, published in Alliterati Magazine, Issue 18)
2014
a thousand of my own to keep me company (published in streetcake magazine, Issue 40)
all parties must avoid provocations (self-portrait as drone)
Asking only one thing in return
Celebrity Dream No. 5 (Henry Rollins)
Celebrity Dream No.6 (Antonio Banderas’ erotic apocalypse) (published in Alliterati Magazine, Issue 18)
Circles, published in Tincture Journal, Issue Six
Some of the white things I saw
2013
Art No.2 (published in PoV Magazine Issue 8, Modern Life)
Circles (published in Tincture Journal, Issue 6)
Pet Hate No.2 (published in PoV Magazine Issue 7, Hate)
take me to the movies (published in street cake magazine Issue 27)
2012
A dream that came true (published in PoV Magazine Issue 6, Love)
a revolution composed of sighs (published in PoV Magazine Issue 8, Modern Life)
Secret fear No.1 (published in Alliterati Magazine Issue 8)
The Excursion (published in Alliterati Magazine Issue 13)
The fleeing dissidents (published in PoV Magazine Issue 4, The Human Condition)
the willful mirrors (published in The Night Light)
These are some of the things I would do if I were an alien wandering Earth on its day off (published in The Night Light)
Tribute (published in PoV Magazine Issue 4, The Human Condition)
Trilogy (Love, Fear, Hate) (partly published in Alliterati Magazine Issue 8)
William Street (Eternally Yours) (published in PoV Magazine Issue 6, Love)
2011
Colossus (published in PoV Magazine Issue 2, Power)
Perfectly askew (published in PoV Magazine Issue 7, Hate)
quaint, legal, writerly (published in Railroad Poetry Project Issue 2)
Red, perhaps a Vespa (published in The Night Light)
Sierra Nevada (Obituary No.3) (published in The Best Australian Poems 2011)
Souvenir (published in PoV Magazine Issue 4, The Human Condition)
Stylish left-wing tights (published in Railroad Poetry Project Issue 2)
Tender birds in conference (published in PoV Magazine Issue 2, Power)
The Golden Record (published in PoV Magazine Issue 4, The Human Condition)
The old man of indeterminate (published in PoV Magazine Issue 3, Identity)
Two negresses (published in Alliterati Magazine Issue 18, The Body)
2010
an orphan of light (published in PoV Magazine Issue 6, Love)
Following People (published in PoV Magazine Issue 8, Modern Life)
Like a creature of his own making (Obituary No.1) (published in Eclecticism Issue 17)
Self portrait (This is why I must refuse to meet my heroes) (published in PoV Magazine Issue 3, Identity)
The tyranny of governments (published in PoV Magazine Issue 2, Power)
Where o where (published in Cordite Poetry Review Issue 36: Electronica)
2008
each day I am bird glad (single poem) (published in Cordite Poetry Review Issue 29: Pastoral)
2006
uniting nations (published in Alliterati Magazine Issue 13)
2004
dry in the mouth of lovers (published in PoV Magazine Issue 7, Hate)
2003
as the world is sometimes gotten sad (published in PoV Magazine Issue 6, Love)
2001
I am the reason (published in PoV Magazine Issue 7, Hate)
1999
giving comfort to lovers (published in Railroad Poetry Project Issue 3)
1996
selfportrait3 (published in PoV Magazine Issue 7, Hate)
standing at the bar (published in Railroad Poetry Project Issue 3)
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