New Poem Published in San Diego Poetry Annual 2012-2013 Edition

The latest edition of the San Diego Poetry Annual is available for sale. I have a poem titled "Eye Floaters" appearing in it. You can purchase this book at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and Createspace.com.

This Sunday, I'll also be appearing for a reading sponsored by this publication. It's at the Escondido Municipal Arts Gallery from 1PM-4PM. Be there. Or don't.

The Last Sane Man Alive

Here's one that was originally published in the San Diego Poetry Annual. I'm pretty fond of this piece, and I like that it kind of blurs the line between prose poem and flash fiction.

THE LAST SANE MAN ALIVE

     Winter arrived in July this year, a cloud of ruin brought gorgeous ashen snow. The deadly flakes danced through the florid sky, clinging loosely to his balding hair, a doomsday toupee. The fluorescent fungus in the horizon was a perfectly framed photograph. The end looked so lovely he could hardly pull himself away to hide. Miles away, the city wailed its last gasps.

     An underground bunker in the country, fully stocked. An ocean's worth of bottled water towering to the ceiling. An antique solid oak shelf overstuffed with his most prized canned goods. Boston baked beans, cream of broccoli soup, hominy grits, mandarin oranges. A framed black and white photo of his wife in a summer dress, taken in 1965 on their honeymoon, twenty years before she passed. A well-taped cardboard box containing his most favorite dusty literature, an extra pair of reading glasses, for he's no Burgess Meredith. Tiny vanilla candles to dull the scent of the latrine. A brand new generator, tested once for proper operation, once again for security. A small color television and VCR to watch home movies of his grandchildren back in Arkansas. A radio for hopeful news.

     He waited for days for help to come, he waited for weeks receiving none, he waited for months, never again to view the radiant sun.

On a Meathook

Hello everyone...sorry it's been forever since my last post. I'm just a busy little beaver. Here's a quick treat for you. This poem was previously published in the San Diego Poetry Annual.

Dedicated to everyone who values and respects the lives of non-human animals...or maybe it's dedicated to those who don't...hmm...

ON A MEATHOOK

sterling clinks fine china

stained with filthy ichor

savor the spirit

that dances down the gullet

wails echo from afar

the executioner wipes

the sanguine blade

upon his apron

relish in

humanity

in the grim field

gazing

into her moist orbs

so sweet with life

her mottled hair

once so brilliant

soon commodified

sold for magic beans

her manure

perpetuates the cycle

she finds her next life

in the form of prosperous

gilded arches

sentience sliced

and processed into the smiles

of naive

ethereal minds

condiments will mask

the flavor

of malfeasance

the body of mankind

a tomb

the epitaph--

nutritional statistics

the elegy--

a catchy jingle

lyrical lies

drawing flies

that pulp caught twixt your teeth

was someone's baby

the heart

is cheap gristle

with compassion

stunned

into nebulous

oblivion

children's laughter

children slaughtered

selfish tastes

lead to cancerous fates

San Diego Poetry Annual Available for Sale

The current edition of the San Diego Poetry Annual (2011-2012) came out this month and is available for purchase at Createspace.com and Amazon.com.
I have two poems published in this book: "On a Meathook" and "The Last Sane Man Alive." 
I'm not sure if anyone reading this blog is interested in buying this book or not, but I figured I'd put the information out there and spread the word since I'm excited to be a part of this project!