And One For The Idiot

SORRY SON, it's not about you being outside and in the back.

You Read It Here First

I HAVE DECANTED the pure toddy from the scum. I am at peace.

You Read It Here First

TO CATCH SOME SALMON, you must go with the flow.

Bordello Bravery

Booksellers Can Write, Too

Back cover

MY FIRST JOB in New York City was selling books for Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. It was an evening job that paid $5.50 an hour and had no benefits, but what I was rewarded in the end was the sight of a book on its shelves that carried my name. When the corporate office of Barnes and Noble Books called for submissions to an anthology of writing and art done by its employees, I turned in a piece of poetry that was accepted by its editor Stuart Miller. Thank you, sir!

Doing Good

WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS until last week. The school didn't tell Sara, and she didn't care much about it.

A Defibrillator Of A Letter

GOTTA COME BACK TO LIFE and make this happen.

Red River

I Will Deliver, Mr. Junker

MANY THANKS TO ZYZZYVA founding editor Howard Junker for the recognition by putting my work alongside those of America's best writers in his anthology Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of ZYZZYVA.  That faith is never forgotten even after all these years, Mr. Junker, and I will deliver on it as I face the task of writing more squarely. From Ellyn Maybe of Los Angeles View: “Strange Attraction deserves a place on every reader’s shelf.” 

You Read It Here First

IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, make lemonade. Enjoy it until you've had your fill, then sell the leftover.  Here is a preview of what's in Tales of the Toddy Tapper and Other Narrative Poems.