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Selected Poetry


For Jimi Hendrix


An idle instrument
Induces such sorrow
A longing to hear
The beat of a chord
--

The only time
One could weep
At the sound of
The national anthem

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From Here
for Bimbo Rivas

My life diminished
Abandoned
​Lost between tenements
Of scorching days
Dumfounded
Must contact
The missing persons bureau
Knock door to door
Circulate photos
To find you once more

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Prayer for Billy

Absent hours lend sorrow to a waking day
Time moves light across solitary asphalt
The metropolis turns silent
The hour grows longer
Multitudes invade city streets
Chaotic train stations spin out of control
The world is lacking you

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Reasons for Living with You


I lived with you
To discover
What destruction
Looked like

When you discarded me
I laughed in
Pouring hail
Crossed streets
In the middle
Of nights

Weary of time
In empty buildings
I watched
From outside
The flicker
Of candlelight
Through strange windows

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​
​Mom’s Phone Call
​
My mother called today
Only to express her worry
Only to share her nightmare
Only to warn me
Of some impending doom
Only to say she begs nightly
To her Lord in the heavens
For my protection
Only to confirm her love

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Photo Elizabet Velasquez

Selected Poetry on Line


About Place Journal 2025

Academy of American Poets, 2025

A Gathering of the Tribes, 2022
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Revista Acrobata, 2021

​About Place Journal, 2020

Luna Luna Magazine, 2017

Eco-Poetry Website, 2016

LiVE MAG ! 2016


Konch Magazine, 2014

Napalm Health Spa, "Long Masterpieces of the Postbeats," 2013
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Festival de la Palabra: Encuentro Mundial de Escritores y Lectores, 2012

​National Public Radio, "Subdued Reflection on Sept. 11 Anniversary," 2011

​Napalm Health Spa, Report, 2011




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