Introduction

Welcome, web-surfers. Today is the first day of your journey into my teenage archives. The poems are in chronological order. If you read them chronologically (starting here), you will see my progression as a poet, and you may also get some of the subtle cross-references that are imbedded in my work. This is not everything - some things are for me alone, while others went straight to the recycling - but it is, I'm sure, enough.

I hope you enjoy it. Laugh with me, cry with me, be as deeply embarrassed as I sometimes am, but don't tell me you haven't been there, too.

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“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can — in some beautifully bound book,” Jung instructed. “It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them. . . . Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.”

- New York Times, "The Holy Grail of the Unconscious", 9/16/09

If you only have time for a few

Dear Reader,

If you only have time to check out a few poems, here are my favorites:

Nothing's Lost

Change Your Fate

October

Poetic Justice

The Hour of Relative Impermanence

Cosmos in the House

Identity

Magic Poem

This is My Life

Pencil to Paper

Lackadaisical

Comments from 2009

Scrapbook

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