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Chantwood Magazine has accepted 2 of my poems for publication.

Chantwood Magazine has accepted 2 of my poems for publication.

‪Thank you Germanna art professor Eduardo King for doing my portrait as a retirement gift on my last full day at work.

Everything that does not need you is real W. S. Merwin

“A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.” Virginia Woolf “Beneath memory and experience, beneath imagination and invention, beneath words, there are rhythms to which memory and imagination and words all move; the writer’s job is to go down deep enough to feel that rhythm and let it move memory and imagination to find the words.” Ursula LeGuin

My Dad kept a copy of my poem " Fatherhood ," which I wrote for him, under the cash register in his store until the day he died. I miss him every day.

My Dad kept a copy of my poem “ Fatherhood ,” which I wrote for him, under the cash register in his store until the day he died. I miss him every day.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. —EDWARD ABBEY

Congrats to Cambridge MA poet Thomas Daley on 9 of his poems being featured in What Rough Beast 

Two of my poems are in Issue #11 of 50 Haikus just released