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His poetry has appeared in\u00a0<em>Adagio Verse Quarterly, Cause &amp; Effect, Coppeer Nickel, Diner, Fuselit, GUD, Madswirl, Mudfish, Skidrow Penthouse,<\/em>\u00a0among others, and has twice been nominated to the Pushcart Prize. His works for the stage have been performed in AK, AZ, CO, NY, and London.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_675_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>How to Vacation in a Country at War<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n1<BR>\r\nOne way I know is to become the coffee pot<BR>\r\nbelow the office calendar,<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nthis is better than becoming the filing cabinet<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nthe coffee is stirred by everyone alike<BR>\r\nwith their tongue.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nYou might also consider becoming the calendar<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nbut in bright-field illuminations of vitamin C crystallites<BR>\r\nyou can\u2019t feel the wind<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nnaked as a horse, fill its chest over the wave<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n&amp; bellow the deep black electric night at sea.<BR>\r\nBe the wind then<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nor become the wave inspired by your former self<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nthe wind(with the moon that is inside you &amp;)<BR>\r\ninside the wave<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\neven the wave that is sleeping inside the eye of the shark<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nclosed within the wave asleep inside the eye<BR>\r\nof the storm<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n&amp; the desire inside the shark inside the wave<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nis the prehistoric desire within us to master the seas<BR>\r\nwith our desire(&amp; if not desire cowardice<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ndesire)to escape the terrified city<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nof our employment(too early the hospice<BR>\r\nof our desire).<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n*<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nWe Numerous we giddy<BR>\r\nbefore the bridge crossing into wilderness<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nabove the river drawing all its long face<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nto pucker &amp; kiss the mouth of the sea.<BR>\r\nWe numerous as shark\u2019s teeth<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nas fragile, as easily replaces, as irreplaceable, as<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nmuch killer<BR>\r\nas much priest<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nas likely to die in our sleep<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nas much owing to a mouthful of water<BR>\r\nas much the face beneath the surface of veil, as much the heart veiled<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nin its dark guise of infidelity, as much the mourning heart in its veil of levity<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nas much the right cowboy as the right dude whipping the sick horse<BR>\r\ndrawing its carriage<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nthrough the sponge of exhaust wiping down<BR>\r\nPark West<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nthe one that looked you dead in the face<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nwith the fly drowning in its eye<BR>\r\n&amp; whispered<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nshoot the fly.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n*<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n&amp;<BR>\r\n&amp;<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nif the fly like the moon can escape the eye<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ncan the wave cheat the moon? can love reverse the tide<BR>\r\nof familiarity? can a bullet be fashioned of opposite intent<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nto enter the eye that blinks in the rifle\u2019s scope?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ncan the tongue return to the mouth<BR>\r\nof the silent grave to command its maker<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nto sit like children before the fire<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nin a country at war?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>Bird Poems in a Country at War<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n1<BR>\r\nA courier pigeon walks into a bar and says to the Emperor\u2019s falcon<BR>\r\n<EM>All possible universes exist except one<BR>\r\nwhere I love you.<\/EM><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n2<BR>\r\nBird watching can be inspirational<BR>\r\nwhen you are unable to fly<BR>\r\nto heights<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ndead children look like sparrows,<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nfor example.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThe distance it is safe to follow a woman<BR>\r\nis also something men don\u2019t understand<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n3<BR>\r\n<EM>-to Rob Cook<\/EM><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n13 trumpet trees do not a bandstand of angels make<BR>\r\nbut 13 blackbirds choiring there<BR>\r\nherald an extinction of winter out of the singing air<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n4<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSometimes crossing a bridge at night<BR>\r\nswaddled in low sodium gauze of the alkaline lights<BR>\r\nI imagine a migration North inside a moist mouth<BR>\r\non the wingtip of a flock of migrating mouths.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n&amp; if you are anything like me<BR>\r\ncrossing a bridge in the rain at night racked with sobbing<BR>\r\nthen let us too fall in love now &amp; here<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nacross the distance<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nacross the threshold of the mystery, the mountain we know is there<BR>\r\nwith its summit &amp; long descent into the valleynot for all it\u2019s true<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nothers may empty into the sea<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nwhile I agree to go blindly<BR>\r\ninto an old country<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nas mercenary as a pigeon<\/P>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n <script>\r\n\t\tjQuery(function () {\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('#myTab_675 a:first').tab('show')\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(function(){\r\n\t\t\tvar b=\"fadeIn\";\r\n\t\t\tvar c;\r\n\t\t\tvar a;\r\n\t\t\td(jQuery(\"#myTab_675 a\"),jQuery(\"#tab-content_675\"));function d(e,f,g){\r\n\t\t\t\te.click(function(i){\r\n\t\t\t\t\ti.preventDefault();\r\n\t\t\t\t\tjQuery(this).tab(\"show\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tvar h=jQuery(this).data(\"easein\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(c){c.removeClass(a);}\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(h){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+h);a=h;}\r\n\t\t\t\t\telse{if(g){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+g);a=g;}else{f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+b);a=b;}}c=f.find(\"div.active\");\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\r\n\t\tfunction do_resize(){\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar width=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).width();\r\n\t\t\tvar height=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).height();\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar toggleSize = true;\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('iframe').animate({\r\n\t\t\t    width: toggleSize ? 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