Series

Winter Solstice Poems

2011: Solstice: Three poems (Erling Friis-Baastad, John Haines, Basho)

2014: December: One Poem

2015: Saturnalia, Solstice, Christmas (Three Poems)

2016: Midway Through Life's Journey: Winter Solstice Poem

2017: Winter Solstice: The Under Realm 

2018: Hope, Courage, Mercy

 

Original Child Bomb: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Bomb 

(series on the past, present and future of the nuclear bomb)

Part 1: Introduction, protest at Los Alamos, the nuclear ban negotiations treaty

Part 2: Poem by Toge Sankichi, activist, poet, bomb survivor

Part 3: The conventional history, how the decision was really made, saturation bombing, fog of war

Part 4: The Soviet angle, partisan politics in the decision making process, legacy of death and ashes, cold war policies continued

Part 5: Environmental devastation, psychopathology of deterrence, mini-nukes and the new nuclear arms race

Part 6: A shadow etched in stone

Related blog: The Hiroshima Panels and the Truth of War

The Service Economy

Part 1: Why does cashiering equal bottom-feeding, the hapless bookseller's story, unionization, what's a real job?

Part 2: The customer is always right?

Part 3: Why do you need me to pretend to be happy to serve you?

Part 4: Class warfare in America, end of the hapless bookseller's story

Part 5: Strikes, new fights, moving beyond the service economy

Mysterious Package in the Mail: The Songs of Zak Jourek 

(stories and songs inside a package that came to me in the mail one day, from a lost singer/songwriter I used to know)

Part 1: My relationship with Zak, his disappearance, 1st part of his manuscript - In the naked bed, in the motel cave

Part 2: 2nd part of Zak's manuscript - Lost in the Land of Irony, plus songs

Part 3: 3rd part of Zak's manuscript - If you're ever in Panama City, definitely check out the blind fate

Part 4: 4th part of Zak's manuscript - The Watermelon Pickup, plus songs

Part 5: 5th part of Zak's manuscript - playing hide and seek with the sea, plus songs

Part 6: The entire manuscript, including the end (purblind fate), plus songs

Labor Day

Labor Day: The Ludlow Massacre

History of Labor Day & A Few Poems

The Current State of Labor in the US & 3 Poems

The World of Leonora Carrington (English/Mexican Surrealist Artist)

Part 1: The Early Years

Part 2: The Alchemical Kitchen

Part 3: Dark Mysteries, Cosmic Jokes

Paris

Part 1: Through the Lens

Part 2: Ruminations of the pantheon, the commune of 1871, Arthur Rimbaud, the concept of "great men", and a vision among the bones…  

Related Blog: Kill-Floor: the final poems of Arthur Rimbaud (a short biography of Rimbaud, including his time in Paris)